27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-5.10.2

PILOT-IN-THE-LOOP INFLUENCE ON CONTROLLED TILTROTOR STABILITY AND GUST RESPONSE

J. Serafini, D. Muro, M. Gennaretti
Univ. Roma Tre, Italy

Keywords: tiltrotor, rotocraft-pilot coupling, gust alleviation, stability

This paper deals with the analysis of controlled tiltrotor in presence of pilot-in-the-loop. The authors have synthesized control laws aimed at stability and ride quality augmentation based on optimal control and compared their open-loop performance and robustness with the closed-loop (pilot-in-the-loop) ones.

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