25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-6.4.2

FAULT IMMUNE FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CIVIL TRANSPORTS

J. Sumita
Nishinippon Institute of Technology, Japan

Keywords: Flight Control, Reconfiguration, Autonomous, Fault Immune, System Reliability

The autonomous flight control system with 10-12 fault/hour to a critical failure is discussed. One-man pilot, a pilot control through flight path, a reflex-motion type of reconfiguration in case of control surface failures in the basic control layer are cited as main contributors to a fault immune system.

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