Optimization based clearance of flight control laws: a civil aircraft application

This book summarizes the main achievements of the EC funded 6 Framework Program project COFCLUO – Clearance of Flight Control Laws Using Optimization. Thisproject successfully contributed to the achievement of a top-level objective to meet society’s needs for a more efficient, safer and environmentally friendly air transport by providing new techniques and tools for the clearance of flight control laws. This is an important part of the certification and qualification process of an aircraft – a costly and time-consuming process for the aeronautical industry. The overall objective of the COFCLUO project was to develop and apply optimization techniques to the clearance of flight control laws inorder to improve efficiency and reliability. In the book, the new techniques are explained and benchmarked against traditional techniques currently used bythe industry. The new techniques build on mathematical criteria derived from the certification and qualification requirements together with suitable modelsof the aircraft. The development of these criteria and models are also presented in the book. Because of wider applicability, the optimization-based clearance of flight control laws will open up the possibility to design innovative aircraft that today are out of the scope using classical clearance tools. Optimization-based clearance will not only increase safety but it will also simplify the whole certification and qualification process, thus significantly reducecost. The achieved speedup will also support rapid modeling and prototyping and reduce “time to market”. Recent research on Optimization Based Clearance ofFlight Control Laws. Summarizes the main achievements of the EC founded. 6th Framework Programme COFCLUO project. Written by leading experts in the field INDICE: Part I Clearance of Civil Aircraft. Part II Generation of Linear Uncertain Models. Part III Analysis Techniques and Tools. Part IV Analysis Results. Part V Industrial Evaluation. Part VI Surveys on Flight Control Clearance.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-22626-7
• Editorial: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 477
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés