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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2015.43.6.548

Development of a Control Law to Pneumatic Control for an Anti-G Suit  

Kim, Chong-sup (Korea Aerospace Ltd.)
Hwang, Byung-moon (Korea Aerospace Ltd.)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.43, no.6, 2015 , pp. 548-556 More about this Journal
Abstract
The highly maneuverable fighter aircraft such as F-22, F-16 and F-15have the high maneuverability to maximize the combat performance, whereas the high maneuver characteristics might degrade the pilot's mission efficiency due to fatigue's increase by exposing him to the high gravity and, in the worst case, the pilot could face GLOC (Gravity-induced Loss Of Consciousness). The advanced aerospace company has applied the various technologies to improve the pilot's tolerance to the gravity acceleration, in order to prevent the pilot from entering the situation of the loss of consciousness. Especially, the Anti-G Suit(AGS) equipment to protect the pilot against the high gravity in flight could improve the mission success rate by decreasing the pilot's fatigue in the combat maneuver as well as prevent the pilot from facing GLOC. In this paper, a control algorithm is developed and verified to provide an optimal air pressure to AGS according to the gravity increase during the high performance maneuver. This result is expected, as the key technology, to contribute to the KF-X(Korean Fighter eXperimental), project in the near future.
Keywords
GLOC(Gravity-induced Loss of Consciousness); AGV(Anti-G Valve); AGS(Anti-G Suit); AGSM(Anti-G Straining Maneuver);
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