ENGINES-ONLY FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM

Patent №

US 5,330,131

Granted

1994-07-19

Filed 1992

Owner

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AEROUNAUTICS AND SPACE

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07889347

A backup flight control system for controlling the flightpath of a multi-engine airplane using the main drive engines. The backup flight control system comprises an input device for generating a control command indicative of a desired flightpath, a feedback sensor for generating a feedback signal indicative of at least one of pitch rate, pitch attitude, roll rate and roll attitude, and a control device for changing the output power of at least one of the main drive engines on each side of the airplane in response to the control command and the feedback signal.

PlanningG05D 1/0077B64C 15/02B64C 19/00

AI classification

Planning0.97
AI hardware0.00
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AEROUNAUTICS AND SPACE

assignment · 62270569

Assignors

BURCHAM, FRANK W., GILYARD, GLENN B., CONLEY, JOSEPH L., STEWART, JAMES F., FULLTERON, CHARLES G.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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