Autonomous flight was enabled by installing a flight control computer with a micro-electro-mechanical gyroscope and accelerometers, along with a micro video camera and an ultralight wireless communication system inside the fuselage.
The result has been successfully demonstrated by numerical and application examples including a flight control system for a fighter aircraft.
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The modern multi-input multi-output (MIMO) control design techniques could significantly contribute to the reduction of the development time and cost of a fly-by-wire flight control system also for a small commercial aircraft.
In order to reduce the design effort, an automated procedure has been developed and applied to the design of a longitudinal control law in a fly-by-wire flight control system.
The Fighting Falcon has key features including a frameless bubble canopy for better visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while maneuvering, a seat reclined 30 degrees to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot, and the first use of a relaxed static stability/fly-by-wire flight control system helps to make it a nimble aircraft.
Both airliners incorporated fly-by-wire flight control technology, first introduced on an Airbus aircraft with the A320, as well as the A320's six-display glass cockpit.
Electromechanical actuators have become a key technology for the onset of power-by-wire flight control systems in the next generation of commercial aircraft.
As to guarantee flight safety when system failures occur, modern fly-by-wire flight control systems for commercial aircraft incorporate reconfiguration control modes.
New challenges posed by advances in aerospace technologies, such as fly-by-wire flight control, large flexible airframes and flight simulation, have led to increasingly complex mathematical representations of pilot behaviour.
