Title :
Optimal aircraft control upset recovery with and without component failures
Author :
Sparks, D.W. ; Moerder, D.
Author_Institution :
Guidance & Control Branch, NASA Langley Res. Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Abstract :
Recovery of safe flight for a particular aircraft, in a specific initial adverse condition is examined, with and without a specific control failure. It is shown that under optimal circumstances, the adverse vehicle state could be corrected with little altitude loss. In addition, a control failure which proved fatal in practice was corrected, assuming independently acting spoilers. Generalizing these results to a comprehensive set of upset scenari will be time consuming, but could offer valuable heuristic piloting insights.
Keywords :
aircraft control; optimal control; aircraft control; optimal control; recovering safe flight; recovery; trajectory optimization; transport aircraft; Aerodynamics; Aerospace control; Aircraft; Atmospheric modeling; Elevators; Engines; NASA; Sparks; Table lookup; Vehicle dynamics;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7298-0
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2002.1024494