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Evaluation of an Independent Flight Control Law Monitor
Dominik Hübener Research Assistant, Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Flight Mechanics, Flight Control and Aeroelasticity, 10587, Berlin, Germany.
Robert Luckner Professor, Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Flight Mechanics, Flight Control and Aeroelasticity, 10587, Berlin, Germany.
Guido Weber Senior Expert Primary Flight Control Systems, Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH, Chief Engineering Flight Controls and Actuation Systems, 88161, Lindenberg, Germany.
Abstract:
Electronic flight control systems are safety-critical and complex. Such systems require highest levels of integrity and availability. This is why the development process for embedded flight control laws has to ensure rigorous validation and verification. However, complete absence of development errors - especially in the requirements - cannot be guaranteed. Usually, there is one requirement set from which flight control laws and their software are developed. Accordingly, undetected errors in the flight control law requirements represent a potential single point of failure. One possible approach is to develop independent flight control law monitoring functions. This paper integrates potential Independent Monitoring Functions into an overall Independent Monitor for flight control laws. It evaluates its effectiveness and robustness, using a simulation environment with a flight mechanical model of a commercial aircraft and its flight control laws for manual flight.
Keywords: Development Error; Flight Control Law; Independent Monitoring; Requirement Error; safety critical functions
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Dominik Hübener, Robert Luckner, Guido Weber: Evaluation of an Independent Flight Control Law Monitor. Proceedings of the 2024 CEAS EuroGNC conference. Bristol, UK. June 2024. CEAS-GNC-2024-005.
BibTeX entry:

@Incollection{CEAS-GNC-2024-005,
    author = {H\"ubener, Dominik and Luckner, Robert and Weber, Guido},
    title = {Evaluation of an Independent Flight Control Law Monitor},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 {CEAS EuroGNC} conference},
    address = {Bristol, UK},
    month = jun,
    year = {2024},
    note = {CEAS-GNC-2024-005}
}