Flight Safety Issues of an All-Electric Aircraft

Flight safety issues of an all-electric aircraft include flight control system reliability, protection from electromagnetic interference and lightning, and protection from design errors (primarily in software) and handling qualities when failures occur if the all-electric aircraft does not have traditional aerodynamic stability. Some of these questions already have partial answers, but others remain open. The Federal Aviation Administration expects that discussions with experts in the aviation industry, the military services, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and foreign regulatory authorities for civil aircraft will be necessary to resolve these issues.     

民用飞机试飞规划与管理软件适用性研究

飞行试验是民机研制的重要手段,也是飞机取得适航证的必经过程。随着现代大型民用飞机的设计越来越复杂,试飞制约因素越来越多样,任务量越来越庞大。试飞成为制约型号进度和研制成本的重要因素。对于试飞工作者而言,必须采用科学的方法对试飞任务进行合理规划和管理。为此,国内某飞机设计研究院历时三年,开发了一款用于试飞任务管理的软件——民用飞机试飞规划与管理软件(Flight Test Control System,简称FTCS)。以国内某型号飞机试飞为例,对FTCS的适用性进行了分析和评估,为FTCS的应用和发展提供建议。     

Notes on `The electric control of large aeroplanes'

The author examines a proposal published by D.T. Glass-Hooper (see Flight, Dec. 21, 1916) for controlling an aircraft using solenoids. He than discusses the control systems used almost universally in aircraft through the end of WWII, and the gradual evolution to almost all-electrical flight control (the hydraulic actuator is the last major nonelectrical element). Laboratory testing of electric actuators is considered and the C-141 Aileron electric actuation system is presented. The High Technology Test Bed program, which was implemented to provide a research aircraft for the development and evaluation of aerodynamic, avionic, and flight control system concepts, is described     

现代电传操纵飞机驾驶员手操纵器试飞演示

介绍了１９９４年在俄罗斯格罗莫夫飞行研究（ＦＲＩ）的Ｔｙ－１５４Ｍ空中飞行模拟器上进行的现代电传操纵飞机试飞演示的情况，其中包括试飞文件编写，飞行前训练，飞行试验，驾驶员评定，数据处理和编写技术报告等内容，对现代电传操纵飞机驾驶员手操纵器试飞方法进行了综合分析与研究，获得了一些实践经验，可供国内同行参考。     

民用飞机飞控通电自检测安全性研究

民用飞机飞控通电自检测安全性分析周期假设为20 FH(Flight Hour,飞行小时),不能覆盖24 h,飞机全天利用率高,在下次执行飞控通电自检测之前可能会出现飞控通电自检测过期告警。为了提高飞机维修性,有必要对飞控通电自检测安全性进行研究。通过建立飞控系统失效条件关联的故障树并更新飞控通电自检测的暴露时间,在符合飞控系统I～IV类失效条件等级故障概率要求和千分之一判据情况下,安全性分析结果表明飞控通电自检测周期可以提高到30 FH。     

Fly-by-wire T & E challenge [aircraft test pilot handling compensation]

Systems developers and testers have always assumed that human compensation is measurable, or, at least, that a cognizant and trained tester is able to identify and detect compensation. More than one study conducted at the Wright-Patterson large amplitude multi-mode aerospace research simulator (LAMARS) facility indicates that this is not necessarily true. Test pilots were able to compensate sufficiently to fly and meet defined performance standards on intentionally crippled aircraft flight control designs. These flight control systems were designed to trigger pilot-induced oscillations, but, in most cases, test pilots could compensate sufficiently to prevent pilot-induced oscillations and to control the simulated aircraft. Anecdotally, this points to a colossal deficiency in the test of highly augmented aircraft systems that has been borne out by multiple aircraft accidents in actual aircraft designs: natural pilot compensation is sufficient to allow faulty designs to reach production and operational service while hiding critical handling qualities cliffs that can lead to loss of an aircraft. This observation, if applied across the gamut of human factors experimentation, has vast ramifications for test and evaluation and development of all human interface systems.     

XV-15倾转旋翼飞机飞行控制系统概述

XV-15倾转旋翼飞机兼有直升机垂直起降、空中悬停及固定翼飞机高速巡航的优点，因而在军用和民用飞机中有着广泛的应用前景。XV-15的机体结构和普通飞机一样，但在翼尖安装可以倾转的发动机短舱和旋翼。该飞机控制系统结合旋翼控制和固定翼控制，通过自动控制系统和推力管理系统来辅助飞行员对飞机的控制。主要介绍了主飞行控制系统和辅助控制系统的控制特点。     

应用时间裕度法评估人-机系统飞行安全

采用临界参数确定飞行风险,提出了安全飞行时间裕度概念,根据安全飞行时间裕度和飞行员操纵干预滞后时间评估飞行安全。研究了不利因素影响下的飞行员操纵干预滞后特性。给出了临界参数分别为过载和高度时,飞行安全时间裕度的计算方法。实现了对人-机系统飞行安全的定量评估,并给出了风险概率。     

Design of safety monitor schemes for a fault tolerant flight control system

For a research aircraft, "conventional" control laws (CLs) are implemented on a "baseline" flight computer (FC) while research CLs are typically housed on a dedicated research computer. Therefore, for an experimental aircraft used to test specific fault tolerant flight control systems, a safety logic scheme is needed to ensure a safe transition from conventional to research CLs (while at nominal conditions) as well as from research CLs at nominal conditions to conditions with "simulated" failures on specific control surfaces. This paper describes the design of such a safety scheme for the NASA Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS) F-15 Program. The goals of the IFCS F-15 program are to investigate the performance of a set of fault tolerant CLs based on the use of dynamic inversion with neural augmentation. The different transitions are monitored using information relative to flight conditions and controller-related performance criteria. The testing of the scheme is performed with a Simulink-based flight simulation code and interface developed at West Virginia University for the NASA IFCS F-15 aircraft.     

飞机机动飞行的非线性解耦控制研究

本文针对12维非线性飞机动力学模型,利用非线性逆动力学理论和现代最优控制理论设计了一组含有指令静差积分环节的非线性解耦控制规律。这组控制规律使得对状态变量、控制变量以及它们变化率进行加权约束的性能指标极小,并能用平缓的操纵反应和较小的控制能量使飞机达到完全解耦的指定状态。由于这组控制规律计及了飞机动力学模型中的非线性因素,能够弥补飞机机动飞行时非线性特性的恶化影响,在整个飞行包线内都能为飞机提供优良的操纵品质和飞行性能。     

Electromechanical Actuation Technology for the All-Electric Aircraft

Electromechanical actuation is a critical element that must be developed and verified to make the all-electric aircraft a viable concept. For several years the Flight Control Division of the Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories has sponsored activities to demonstrate the credibility of electromechanical actuation systems (EMAS) for primary flight control actuation functions. The foundation for these EMAS activities and several electromechanical actuation development programs are described here. One involves the design, fabrication, and laboratory test of a rotary, hingeline electromechanical actuator. Another involves the development and flight test demonstration of a linear electromechanical actuator for controlling an aileron of a C-141 aircraft. A third involves the design and development of a linear electromechanical actuator for missiles having severe performance, temperature, and volumetric requirements. In addition, a brief summary of the results from two aircraft actuation trade studies compare the baseline (conventional) hydraulic flight control system with an all-electric airplane concept including quantitative comparisons of weight, reliability and maintainability, and life cycle costs.     

大型民用飞机电传飞控系统验证技术研究

随着国内民用飞机项目研制和型号不断发展,飞控系统采用了先进的高安全、高可靠的全时全权限电传技术,以提高系统综合性能,但同时也增加了电传飞控系统研发与验证的复杂度和风险。以世界上最成功的商业飞机之一——波音777飞机的飞控系统为研究对象,结合国内民机发展情况,进行深入分析和总结,提出了民用飞机飞控系统研发和验证过程模型,为国内民用飞机电传飞控系统的研发和验证提供有益的经验参考。     

Digital Flight Control Research Using Microprocessor Technology

The Flight Research Laboratory at Princeton University is engaged in an experimental program to investigate a variety of approaches to digital control by actual flight test. Experimentation is being conducted with Princeton's 6-DOF variableresponse research aircraft (VRA), which is equipped for direct side-force control, direct-lift control, feedback of all motion variables, and multiple-pilot command modes. VRA avionics have been augmented by a microprocessor digital flight control system (Micro-DFCS), which uses off-the-shelf computer components capable of operating in parallel or in series with the existing variable-response system. The digital control laws operate in conjunction either with the "bare airframe" dynamics of the VRA or with the dynamics of a simulated aircraft, provided by the existing variable-response system. The initial flight control computer program CAS-1 provides three longitudinal control options: direct (unaugmented) command, pitch rate command, and normal acceleration command. The latter two options are "Type 0" systems designed by linear-quadratic control theory. Future Micro-DFCS software will provide a variety of increasingly complex control options, including "Type 1," logic, gain scheduling, coupled 3-axis control, and "CCV" command modes.     

基于标准特征多项式的横侧向飞控系统设计

采用基于标准特征多项式的飞控系统设计方法设计了某型飞机横侧向通道倾斜姿态保持和航向保持控制律,并进行了仿真研究。控制律的设计过程和仿真结果表明,该方法可以确切地给出系统的过渡过程时间和超调量,避免了任意选择初始参数值的盲目性和经验性,大大简化了飞控系统设计的工作量。     

ATM and FIS data link services

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) currently has under development data link services for Air Traffic Management (ATM), Flight Information Service (FIS), and communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS). These services will be provided over the Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN), a worldwide data network intended to provide data communications connectivity among mobile aircraft, airlines, and civil aviation authorities. The ATM and FIS services currently under development are part of an evolutionary process that will begin, for the most part, with duplication of voice services. In the future, services will facilitate a common source of data for pilots, controllers, and flight planners, as well as computer-to-computer communications between ground based and airborne automation systems. These future services will provide benefits such as the use of optimum aircraft tracks and flight profiles     

某型飞机无动力投放模型自由飞控制律设计

针对某型飞机无动力投放模型自由飞试验中,由于受载机螺旋桨滑流影响,模型与载机分离后发生滚转、难以保证水平飞行的问题,根据模型自由飞试验不同阶段的飞行特点开发了专用控制律,具备直接链、投放控制、失速尾旋3种控制模态。论述了控制律的设计过程,以及在模型自由飞试验中的应用情况。试飞结果表明,该控制律很好地解决了模型与载机安全分离和大迎角水平飞行控制问题,提高了模型试验动作精准度。     

飞机着陆下滑状态人-机系统动态特性分析

采用最优控制驾驶员模型在频率域内分析是理论评价电传操纵飞机着陆下滑状态飞行品质的一种有效方法。基于人 -机系统响应特性可揭示出驾驶员工作负荷和系统动态特性之间相互影响。驾驶员相位补偿作为驾驶员工作负荷的度量 ;取人 -机系统闭环带宽、开环高频峰值和飞行轨迹倾角误差均方值等指标来评价系统动态特性。这些评价准则与驾驶员主观评分之间具有很好的相关性。应用该方法对某电传操纵飞机进行分析 ,其结果与飞行模拟评价结果较为一致     

飞参数据的应用研究现状及发展趋势

飞参系统记录了飞机飞行过程中的大量参数,这些参数在飞机的研制、试飞、训练、维护和事故调查等方面都有着巨大的应用价值.本文总结了国内外对飞参数据的应用研究现状,在此基础上,探讨了今后我国该领域研究的发展趋势.     

基于车载平台的飞行管理系统DR/GPS 导航试验验证

飞行管理系统是民用飞机的关键航空电子系统。飞行管理系统制造商有责任对飞行管理系统开展大 量的试验以验证飞行管理系统功能和性能的符合性。考虑数字验证的局限性和飞行试验验证的巨大代价,本文 利用车载平台开展飞行管理系统综合导航功能的验证,试验结果表明设计的飞行管理系统DR/GPS 导航方法能 够满足95% 的飞行时间水平方向达到0.1 海里的导航精度要求,为实际的飞行测试提供了试验数据参考。