ILS-a safe bet for your future landings

An argument is presented in favor of the ILS (instrument landing system), the principal components of which are the localizer, which provides lateral guidance to the pilot, and the glide slope, which gives the vertical guidance. A pilot flying these signals precisely will end up over the hard surface runway with the ILS receiving antenna, wherever it is mounted on the aircraft, being about 20 ft above the touchdown point. The safety record and evolution of the ILS are examined, and a pilot's view of ILS (that of the author, an engineer who has worked with ILS since 1957 and a pilot who has used ILS safely for over 30 years) is given. System availability is discussed, and comments concerning future use are offered     

舰载飞机着舰过程的参数适配特性

 舰载飞机着舰过程的参数适配特性对于着舰安全性有着重要的影响.基于着舰安全准则,研究了无风和平静海况下驾驶员视野、着舰下沉速率和拦阻距离对舰载飞机参数适配特性的影响,给出了一定初始状态下舰载飞机的着舰质量和着舰速度的适配包线,分析了影响最大着舰质量的因素并对适配包线的扩展方法进行了研究.结果表明,适配包线由最小着舰速度和最大着舰速度封闭而成.其中,最小着舰速度主要由驾驶员视野准则决定;对于最大着舰速度,当着舰质量较小时主要由着舰下沉速率准则决定,当着舰质量较大时主要由拦阻距离准则决定;最大着舰质量由拦阻系统性能和驾驶员视野共同决定.通过增大拦阻力、改善飞机的低速气动特性可以有效扩展适配包线范围,增加许用的最大着舰质量,但下滑角大小的改变对其影响不大.     

微下冲气流对飞机着陆性能的影响

针对飞机在下滑着陆阶段穿越微下冲气流的问题,建立了微下冲气流影响下的飞机纵向运动数学模型。用数值方法计算了微下冲气流对空速、迎角和航迹的影响,结果表明,飞机在穿越微下冲气流时,空速、迎角、下滑航迹变化很明显,飞行员操纵和判断的难度会增大。特别是顺风阶段,航迹比正常偏低很多,对飞机的安全着陆影响很大。     

Autonomous Landing Guidance Systems

All weather tactical aircraft recovery and high sortie generation rates from forward, possibly battle damaged landing areas will reqire autonomous landing guidance systems which are independent of ground-based cooperative aids. A recently completed study has examined the operational requirements and assessed current and near term technology for an answer to this need. The Landing Systems Requirements/Synthesis Study has defined the Pilot/vehicle Interface and imaging sensor suite required, based on the concept of augmenting pilot forward vision with sensor imagery and guidance symbology on a HUD during low visibility landings. Image processing technology was also assessed for potential enhancement of the information presented to the pilot. This paper summarizes the final report of the Study, which is in publication.     

F/A-18E/F全自动着舰飞行特性分析

以F/A-18E/F舰载机为对象,针对航迹精确控制和安全性要求,分析了舰载机全自动着舰飞行特性。首先,基于自动着舰控制系统,建立了全自动着舰飞行控制系统的动力学模型;然后,对下滑轨迹纠偏与控制能力、控制器指令响应特性、变换下滑道机动特性进行了仿真分析。仿真结果表明,在全自动着舰安全边界范围内,舰载机能在较短时间内将航迹控制在理想下滑线附近;控制器具有良好的高度变化率、俯仰角、俯仰角速度等状态指令响应特性及控制面指令响应特性;F/A-18E/F变换下滑道机动则需要配合油门完成,说明仅通过平尾控制实现该机动并非安全着舰的必要条件。     

Application of Endfire Arrays at Contemporary Glide-Slope Problem Sites

The application of the endfire-type, compatible instrument landing system (ILS) glide slope is discussed in the context of providing increased capability to install facilities without requirements for extensive terrain modification. Costs of preparing a site for glide-slope operation can be reduced many times by eliminating the requirement for the usual image-forming ground plane. An example is given where the first endfire glide slope has been installed at an airdrome on a mesa giving a high quality path in space in spite of the limited real estate. Recent flight data from this glide slope are presented.     

飞机着陆操纵指令模型设计与仿真

针对某型飞机进场着陆完全靠目视飞行的现状,分析了该飞机加装着陆指令驾驶系统的可行性,分别设计了下滑线、基准线和下滑速度操纵指令模型。对人机闭环系统进行了飞机全量运动方程数值仿真。仿真结果表明所设计的着陆操纵指令模型可用于实现飞机着陆指令驾驶任务。     

ILS-past and present

Insight is provided into the evolution of VHF/UHF instrument landing system (ILS) equipment and the role of the US Civil Aeronautics and Federal Aviation Administrations in its development. The discussion covers the ILS localizer, glide slope (image arrays and nonimage arrays), marker beacon, reliability, and avionics     

GPS autoland considerations

It is pointed out that fully automatic hands-off landing (autoland) capability for commercial aircraft, using the Global Positioning System (GPS), has not been demonstrated, and that ground multipath errors limit vertical positioning accuracy. An evolving integrated-sensor-based architecture for approach and landing, called the tunnel concept, is examined. The precise velocity information available could substantially reduce the vertical accuracy requirement for autoland     

MLS: a total system approach

A typical approach and landing operation is described. The microwave landing system (MLS) is then examined, its design characteristics and how it works are shown, and how the MLS design fulfils the user's operational requirements by protecting the guidance signal from reflected signal interference is highlighted. MLS angle system accuracy is discussed in great detail, and its reliability, integrity, and coverage volume are briefly considered. MLS availability at any runway to all aircraft types and their landing scenarios, which is accomplished using narrow scanning beam antennas, is examined     

A passive millimeter wave camera for aircraft landing in lowvisibility conditions

Fog and low visibility conditions have hampered aviation since its inception. Fog-related accidents are numerous, and canceled take-offs and landings due to fog and low visibility conditions (Cat III) have significant economic impact on airlines, parcel carriers and general aviation. Millimeter waves have good propagation properties in weather and give adequate spatial resolution when used to image the forward scene. Passive millimeter wave focal plane array cameras are new sensors which, integrated into future guidance and landing systems, promise to be an effective aid, or alternative, to existing technology for aircraft landings and take-offs under Cat III conditions. They can produce visual-like radiometric images at real time frame rates (up to 30 Hz), and are directly amenable to image fusion with infrared and visible images. TRW has been actively involved in developing and productizing this technology both at the hardware and the system levels     

基于数字虚拟飞行的民用飞机纵向地面操稳特性评估

针对民用飞机设计方案纵向地面操稳特性的评估需求,面向适航标准的要求,提出了一种基于数字虚拟飞行的评估方法。基于适航条例要求提出了纵向地面操稳特性的量化判定准则,建立了飞机的地面运动模型和驾驶员操纵模型,以实现起降等特定地面运行任务的数字虚拟飞行,最终依据数字虚拟飞行结果和判定准则对飞机设计方案的地面操稳特性做出评估。应用此方法研究了某大型运输类飞机的纵向地面操稳特性。数字虚拟飞行结果表明:前翻倾向的严重情况发生在起降过程的高速滑行段,主轮刹车引起的机身前翻倾向是显著的,起落架纵向定位参数设计以及飞行进近参数选择均会对飞机的纵向地面操稳特性产生影响。     

飞机自动进近和自动着陆的分析研究

本文首先概述了当前民航客机的自动导航、进近、着陆的全过程。随着重点分析了波音737飞机利用SP-77自动飞行控制系统与仪表着陆系然的航向信标仪和下滑仪及机载无线电高度表等设备实现向跑道自动进近和自动着陆的工作过程,并系统介绍了在实现上述过程中,SP-77自动飞行控制系统的自动驾驶仪横滚通道和俯仰通道控制逻辑的建立,系统工作电路的转换,系统的控制规律和工作特点。     

海上雾霾天气下基于能见度的舰载机目视着舰风险评估方法研究

针对雾霾天气对舰载机目视着舰安全性的影响难以量化的问题,利用激光雷达在近海的能见度观测数据,反演海上雾霾天气下飞行员目视着舰的斜程能见度的状况,提出 1种基于能见度指标的目视着舰风险评估方法,将舰载机着舰过程中飞行员频繁的目测压力,转变为舰上数据测量、风险评估和应对措施等程序化工作,将定性的安全分析转变为定量的风险评估和安全指导,谋求在现有着舰控制模式下有效降低飞行员着舰压力,提升指挥引导效率,为低能见度下舰载机目视着舰训练提供理论依据和实践指导。     

着舰状态飞行员控制策略研究

分析了低动压的背面(backside)着舰工作状态下飞行员仅控制飞机姿态无法控制飞行轨迹角的物理原因。研究了低动压的背面着舰工作状态下使用背面控制策略问题,即以推力来控制轨迹,以飞行姿态来控制迎角。设计了背面技术和前面(frontside)技术控制律,并以A-7E舰载机为例进行了仿真验证。最后对背面着舰工作状态下的背面技术和前面技术进行了比较,分析了海军飞机使用背面技术着舰的原因。     

Augmented flight dynamics model for pilot workload evaluation in tilt-rotor aircraft optimal landing procedure after one engine failure

An augmented flight dynamics model is developed to extend the existing flight dynamics model of tilt-rotor aircraft for optimal landing procedure analysis in the event of one engine failure.Compared with the existing flight dynamics model, the augmented model involves with more pilot control information in cockpit and is validated against the flight test data. Based on the augmented flight dynamics model, the optimal landing procedure of XV-15 tilt-rotor aircraft after one engine failure is formulated into a Nonlinear Optimal Control Problem(NOCP), solved by collocation and numerical optimization method. The time histories of pilot controls in cockpit during the optimal landing procedure are obtained for the evaluation of pilot workload. An evaluation method which can synthetically quantify the pilot workload in time and frequency domains is proposed with metrics of aggressiveness and cutoff frequencies of pilot controls. The scale of the pilot workload is compared with those of the shipboard landing procedures, bob-up/bob-down and dash/quickstop maneuvers of UH-60 helicopter. The results show that the aggressiveness of pilot collective and longitudinal controls for the tilt-rotor aircraft optimal landing procedure after one engine failure are higher than those for UH-60 helicopter shipboard landing procedures up to the condition of sea state 4, while the pilot cutoff frequency of collective control is lower than that of the bob-up/bob-down maneuver but the pilot cutoff frequency of longitudinal control is higher than that of the dash/quick-stop maneuver. The evaluated pilot workload level is between Cooper–Harper HQR Level 2 and Level 3.     

一种基于多操纵面控制分配的IDLC人工着舰精确控制方法

传统舰载机采用纵杆控制迎角,油门杆控制下滑的着舰控制方式存在着操纵通道功能耦合,航迹与姿态耦合,着舰精度不高等多种不足。受舰尾流扰动、航母甲板运动等不利因素的影响,飞行员需要进行高频次的下滑修正操纵,身心负担极重。针对这一问题,在对美军魔毯技术（MAGIC CARPET）系统构成与着舰过程分析的基础上,针对三翼面布局飞机提出了一种基于多操纵面控制分配的综合直接力控制（IDLC）人工着舰精确控制方法。仿真分析表明：基于特征结构配置（EA）解耦设计直接力着舰控制方法能够实现飞机纵向运动长周期模态与短周期模态的解耦、油门通道与纵杆通道的解耦,具有抑制舰尾流扰动、稳定飞机下滑状态、减小操纵负担的功能;而基于多操纵面控制分配的设计方案通过鸭翼正偏增升,不但充分发挥了三翼面布局飞机气动舵面增升控制的优势,还减小了平尾配平出舵量,在一定程度上减小了平尾上偏所带来的升力损失。     

Automatic landing system using neural networks and radio-technical subsystems

The paper focuses on the design of a new automatic landing system(ALS) in longitudinal plane; the new ALS controls the aircraft trajectory and longitudinal velocity. Aircraft control is achieved by means of a proportional-integral(PI) controller and the instrumental landing system– the first phase of landing(the glide slope) and a proportional-integral-derivative(PID) controller together with a radio-altimeter – the second phase of landing(the flare); both controllers modify the reference model associated with aircraft pitch angle. The control of the pitch angle and longitudinal velocity is performed by a neural network adaptive control system, based on the dynamic inversion concept, having the following as components: a linear dynamic compensator, a linear observer, reference models, and a Pseudo control hedging(PCH) block. The theoretical results are software implemented and validated by complex numerical simulations; compared with other ALSs having the same radio-technical subsystems but with conventional or fuzzy controllers for the control of aircraft pitch angle and longitudinal velocity, the architecture designed in this paper is characterized by much smaller overshoots and stationary errors.     

推力矢量型V/STOL飞行器动态过渡过程的操纵策略优化

针对推力矢量型垂直/短距起降（vertical/short takeoff and landing, V/STOL）飞行器的动态过渡过程模型,综合考虑过渡走廊限制、操纵冗余及不同起降任务需求指标,研究最优过渡操纵策略。考虑V/STOL飞行器的喷射气流效应,对飞行器进行全量动力学建模。利用可达平衡集方法,建立通用过渡走廊计算框架。设计了能够在V/STOL过渡段和高速飞行间平稳过渡的操纵方式。将推力矢量飞行器的动态倾转过渡过程转化为非线性动态最优控制问题,根据不同起降任务特点建立合理的指标和约束,采用直接转换法和序列二次规划算法进行求解,得出不同任务特点下的最优操纵策略与过渡过程。采用可达平衡集计算过渡走廊的方法,不仅不受飞行器类型的限制,更简化了构造过程,具有良好的通用性与鲁棒性。以光滑过渡为目标的优化结果使得飞行员在飞行器过渡过程中的操纵量变化大幅减小,从而使得飞行员能更加专注于对飞行器运动的操纵;以距离更短为目标的优化结果则使得降落过程的飞行距离缩短了30%左右。从操纵策略出发的优化结果使得驾驶员能够更好掌握操纵关注点及边界,增加了整个动态过渡过程的安全性。     

民用飞机LRU划分的双步迭代层次分析法

合理的航线可更换单元(LRU)划分可以有效提高民用飞机维修效率,避免飞机停场现象,保障民用飞 机安全可靠运行。在综合考虑民用飞机设计阶段及运营过程中多种因素影响的前提下,提出一种 LRU 划分方 法———双步迭代层次分析法(TSI-AHP)。梳理民用飞机设计阶段及运营阶段相关因素对 LRU 划分的影响; 将产品按照功能分解至最底层结构,将其作为研究对象,运用 TSI-AHP 确定民用飞机 LRU 划分方案;并以 ARJ21-700飞机起落架系统为例,运 用 所 提 方 法 实 现 其 LRU 划 分。结 果 表 明:基 于 TSI-AHP 的 民 用 飞 机 LRU 划分方法可有效实现 ARJ21-700飞机起落架系统的 LRU 划分;本文 LRU 划分项目与实际 LRU 项目基 本一致,验证了该方法的可行性和有效性,可为国产民用飞机 LRU 划分工作提供一种新思路。