The A 320 Airbus is the first civil aircraft equipped with an electrical flight control system. This system is based on very stringent dependability constraints, both in terms of safety and availability. The basic building blocks are control and monitoring computers. The control channel is in charge of the function of the computer, for instance, to slave a control surface. The monitoring channel is used to detect a possible failure of the control channel. A high level of redundancy is built in the system. Particular attention is drawn to possible external stresses. The system is built to tolerate both hardware and software design faults.
Commandes de Vol Electriques de l'Airbus A320: Un Systeme Tolerant aux Fautes (Electrical Flight Control System of A320 Airbus: A Fault Tolerant System)
1991
6 pages
Report
No indication
English
Programme Airbus A320 (A320 Airbus Program)
NTIS | 1987
|L'Airbus A320 NEO dans la dernière ligne droite
Online Contents | 2010
Luftfahrtindustrie - Airbus A320
Tema Archive | 1987
Airbus A320 HLF Fin Flight Tests
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001
|Airbus relaxes on A320 conversions
Online Contents | 2014