Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

Awais Raza

Brady Garrett Atkins

Carl D Griffith

Paul M Wilson

A rotorcraft autopilot system includes a series actuator connecting a cockpit control component to a swashplate of a rotorcraft, the series actuator to modify a control input from the cockpit control component to the swashplate through a downstream control component. The rotorcraft autopilot system also includes a differential friction system connected to the cockpit control component, the differential friction system to control the series actuator to automatically adjust a position of the cockpit control component during rotorcraft flight based, in part, on a flight mode of the rotorcraft.

Growing community of inventors

Fort Worth, TX, United States of America

Awais Raza