23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-7.6.3

PROMOTING AUTONOMOUS CONTROL IN CIVIL TRANSPORTS AS A PROPOSAL FOR THE FLIGHT COMMAND SYSTEM

J. Sumita
Nishinippon Institute of Technology, Japan

Keywords: flight control, autonomous, human interface, fault tolerant

The fatal accidents rate in the civil transports have been keeping almost the same level for over these 10 years. Statistics shows that the human factors are the most predominant causes, which leads us the importance of a harmony between an advanced aircraft, especially in the automation, and a pilot. Author proposes to introduce an autonomous concept to the flight control to promote the automation for minimizing human interface area as small as possible, as Flight Command System.

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