26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-5.10.2

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR FAULT TOLERANT FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM - PART 2 FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS

K. Masui, H. Tomita, A. Yanagida*
JAXA, Japan; *The Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies, Japan

Keywords: flight test, control, guidance, fault tolerant system, safety

This paper deals with the flight demonstrations on the applicability of a control system to guide an airplane with failures to an airport. It consists of the online flight trajectory optimization system, the intelligent collision avoidance system, the real-time adaptive automatic control system and the flight control by engine power.

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