Fault Tolerant Flight Control

The European Flight Mechanics Action Group FM-AG(16) on Fault Tolerant Control, established in 2004 and concluded in 2008, represented a collaboration involving thirteen European partners from industry, universities and research establishments under the auspices of the Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe (GARTEUR) program. The book consists of five parts. Part I contains the introduction and motivation of this research project and a state-of-the-art overview in Fault Tolerant Flight Control (FTC). Part II includes the description of the benchmark challenge, consisting of details of the benchmark simulation model and the assessment criteria used to evaluate the performance of the Fault Tolerant Controllers. Part III covers all the different FDI/FTC design methods which have been applied to the benchmark simulation model. There are two different evaluation methods for these FDI/FTC designs, namely an off-line evaluation using the assessment criteria in the benchmark simulation model in Matlab, and an on-line evaluation on Delft's SIMONA Research Simulator. The off-line evaluations are described in the individual chapters in part III, whereas the latter is treated extensively in part IV where the real time assessments on the SIMONA Research Simulator are introduced and discussed. Finally part V focuses on a review of the applied methods from an industrial perspective together with some concluding remarks.

Klappentext

Written by leading experts in the field, this book provides the state-of-the-art in terms of fault tolerant control applicable to civil aircraft. The book consists of five parts and includes online material.

Inhalt

Surviving the Improbable: Towards Resilient Aircraft Control.- Fault Tolerant Flight Control - A Survey.- Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Aeronautic and Aerospace Missions.- Real-Time Identification of Aircraft Physical Models for Fault Tolerant Flight Control.- Industrial Practices in Fault Tolerant Control.- RECOVER: The Benchmark Challenge.- RECOVER: A Benchmark for Integrated Fault Tolerant Flight Control Evaluation.- Assessment Criteria as Specifications for Reconfiguring Flight Control.- Design Methods and Benchmark Analysis.- Fault Tolerant Control Using Sliding Modes with On-Line Control Allocation.- An Adaptive Fault-Tolerant FCS for a Large Transport Aircraft.- Subspace Predictive Control Applied to Fault-Tolerant Control.- Fault-Tolerant Control through a Synthesis of Model-Predictive Control and Nonlinear Inversion.- A FTC Strategy for Safe Recovery against Trimmable Horizontal Stabilizer Failure with Guaranteed Nominal Performance.- Flight Control Reconfiguration Based on Online Physical Model Identification and Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion.- A Combined Fault Detection, Identification and Reconfiguration System Based around Optimal Control Allocation.- Detection and Isolation of Actuator/Surface Faults for a Large Transport Aircraft.- Real-Time Flight Simulator Assessment.- Real-Time Assessment and Piloted Evaluation of Fault Tolerant Flight Control Designs in the SIMONA Research Flight Simulator.- Piloted Evaluation Results of a Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Based Controller Using Online Physical Model Identification.- Model Reference Sliding Mode FTC with SIMONA Simulator Evaluation: EL AL Flight 1862 Bijlmermeer Incident Scenario.- Conclusions.- Industrial Review.- Concluding Remarks.