Integrated Failure Accommodation and Upset Recovery
Jason E. Wadley, Dallas Hopper, James Buffington · AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit · 2005
Future aerospace vehicles (including, military, civil, and space transportation vehicles) will require revolutionary system concepts that enable new vehicle capabilities under nominal and adverse conditions. These systems will be required to maintain control under faults and failures, prevent and recover from vehicle loss of control conditions, and provide automatic collision avoidance capability. This paper describes the implementation of a reconfigurable flight control system to a transport aircraft model for the purpose of achieving an integrated failure accommodation and upset recovery system. Real-time simulation results in the NASA Langley Research Center’s Integrated Flight Deck are presented. The results show reduced workloads can be achieved while improving safety by application of an integrated failure accommodation and recovery system. This integrated system leverages research acquired through other programs such as the Reconfigurable Systems for Tailless Fighter Aircraft (RESTORE), the Innovative Control Effectors (ICE) Program, and the Sea-Based Endurance (SBE) Program.