One aspect is a flight control system for a coaxial rotary wing aircraft including a main rotor system and an active elevator. The flight control system includes a flight control computer with processing circuitry that executes control logic. The control logic includes a gust detector that produces a gust error indicative of a wind gust encountered by the coaxial rotary wing aircraft. The control logic also includes a gust alleviation control that reduces lift on the main rotor system with collective, based on the gust error, and mixes a collective command to a main rotor cyclic and a differential cyclic to reduce an aircraft pitch response and a lift-offset change. The gust alleviation control also reduces a main rotor pitching moment with the main rotor cyclic, based on the gust error, and mixes a main rotor cyclic command to the active elevator to reduce the aircraft pitch response.


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    Title :

    Gust alleviating control for a coaxial rotary wing aircraft


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    Publication date :

    2019-11-26


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge



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