A Method for the Design of Multirate Sampled-Data Digital Flight Control Systems of Piloted Aircraft

Goodchild, Colin (1990) A Method for the Design of Multirate Sampled-Data Digital Flight Control Systems of Piloted Aircraft. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

The initial flight-test operations of piloted aircraft, in which Digital Flight Control (DFC) systems were first employed, exposed handling qualities problems that were not predicted during the design stage. Subsequent studies attributed the cause of these problems to the techniques used in the design of the digital control systems. The particular feature which unites the reported difficulties is that, an infinite-resolution sampled-data model is assumed for the design process but the practical DFC implementation is realised as an amplitude-quantised sampled-data system.

• Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Keywords: Aerospace engineering, Systems science
• Date of Award: 1990
• Depositing User: Enlighten Team
• Unique ID: glathesis:1990-77017
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 14 Jan 2020 09:23
• Last Modified: 14 Jan 2020 09:23
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/77017