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.
Gust alleviating control for a coaxial rotary wing aircraft
2019-11-26
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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