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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2016.17.1.159

Flight Envelope Load Factor Limit Logic Design for Helicopter Fly-By-Wire Controller  

Choi, In-Ho (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.17, no.1, 2016 , pp. 159-164 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper reports the load factor logic design for a fly-by-wire helicopter flight envelope protection. As a helicopter is very complex system with a rotor, fuselage, engine, etc., there are many constraints on the flight region. Because of these constraints, pilots should consider them carefully and have a heavy workload, which causes controllability degradation. In this respect, automatic logic is needed to free the pilot from these considerations. As one of these logics, the flight envelope protection logic for the load factor of a FBW helicopter was designed. The flight to exceed the load factor is caused by an abrupt pitch cyclic stick change. In this scheme, the load factor limit logic was added between the pilot stick command block and pitch attitude command block. From the current load value, the available attitude range was calculated dynamically and simulated on the helicopter simulator model to verify the performance. A comparison of the simulation results at the hovering and forward speed region with and without applying the load limiting logic showed that the load factor limit was exceeded more than 20% when the logic was not applied, whereas with the load factor limit logic the load factor was within the limit. In conclusion, a dynamically allocated limitation logic to helicopter FBW controller was verified by simulation.
Keywords
ACAH; ADS-33E; Helicopter; Flight control; FBW;
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