Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft control – Automatic
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-14
2007-08-14
Dinh, Tien (Department: 3644)
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft control
Automatic
Reexamination Certificate
active
10981331
ABSTRACT:
A method and computer program product are provided for controlling the control effectors of an aerodynamic vehicle including, for example, the respective positions of nozzles and aerodynamic surfaces, to affect a desired change in the time rate of change of the system state vector. The method initially determines differences between anticipated changes in the states of the aerodynamic vehicle based upon the current state of each control effector, and desired state changes. These differences may be weighted based upon a predetermined criteria, such as the importance of the respective states and/or the weight to be attributed to outliers. The differences between the anticipated and desired state changes are converted to the corresponding rates of change of the control effectors. Control signals are then issued to the control effectors to affect the desired change in the time rate of change of the system state vector.
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Jones Richard D.
Musgrave Jeffrey L.
Alston & Bird LLP
Dinh Tien
The Boeing Company
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