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Activsense Sidestick: A Force Sensing And Force Feedback Joystick, Kobbe Farwick
Activsense Sidestick: A Force Sensing And Force Feedback Joystick, Kobbe Farwick
Electrical Engineering
As aircraft systems continue to become more integrated and fully electronic, hence fly-by-wire, the pilot is slowly losing the physical cues that were once relied upon for the safe operation of the aircraft. Many commercial airliners, such as Airbus, use passive sidesticks that integrate with the electronic flight controls system. These sidesticks move much like a gaming joystick which results in the pilot not having any “feel” for the aerodynamic forces present on the control surfaces. Without the force feedback of a mechanically linked control system the pilot could inadvertently stall the aircraft or place it into an unstable flight …
Control Law Design And Validation For A Helicopter In-Flight Simulator, Brian T. Fujizawa
Control Law Design And Validation For A Helicopter In-Flight Simulator, Brian T. Fujizawa
Master's Theses
In-flight simulation allows one aircraft to simulate the dynamic response of another aircraft. A control system designed to give RASCAL, a JUH-60A Black Hawk helicopter based at Moffett Field, CA, in-flight simulation capabilities has been designed, optimized and validated in this research. A classical explicit model following control system with a frequency dependent feedback controller was used. The frequency dependent controller allows model following of the attitude in the short term and the velocity in the long term. Controller gains were optimized using a high order, linearized model of UH-60 dynamics. Non-linear simulations of the control laws were performed, first …