Through throttle manipulations, engine thrust can be used for emergency flight control for multi-engine aircraft. Previous study by NASA Dryden has shown the use of throttles for emergency flight control to be very difficult. In general, manual fly-by-throttle is extremely difficult - with landing almost impossible, but control augmentation makes runway landings feasible. Flight path control using throttles-only to achieve safe emergency landing for a large jet transport airplane, Boeing 720, was investigated using Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT). Results were compared to an augmented control developed in a previous simulation study. The control augmentation corrected the unsatisfactory open-loop characteristics by increasing system bandwidth and damping, but increasing the control bandwidth substantially proved very difficult. The augmented pitch control is robust under no or moderate turbulence. The augmented roll control is sensitive to configuration changes.


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    Title :

    Low Bandwidth Robust Controllers for Flight


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1993-05-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Low Bandwidth Robust Controllers for Flight

    D. J. Biezad / H. Chou | NTIS | 1993


    Low bandwidth robust controllers for flight

    Biezad, Daniel J. / Chou, Hwei-Lan | NTRS | 1993


    Low Bandwidth Robust Controllers for Flight

    D. J. Biezad / H. Chou | NTIS | 1992


    Low Bandwidth Robust Controllers for Flight

    D. J. Biezad / H. L. Chou | NTIS | 1993


    Low bandwidth robust controllers for flight

    Biezad, Daniel J. / Chou, Hwei-Lan | NTRS | 1992