Pratt-whitney Canada Corp

Bombardier Inc.

Airbus Canada Limited Partnership

Gabriel Meunier

Claude Tessier

Systems and methods for controlling a variable-pitch propeller of an aircraft are provided. A method for controlling the variable-pitch propeller includes using a feedback controller, operating the variable-pitch propeller at a current operating condition including a current rotational speed, determining a speed error between the current rotational speed of the variable-pitch propeller and a set point rotational speed for the variable-pitch propeller, determining a gain for the feedback controller based on a power coefficient and an advance ratio of the variable-pitch propeller. Using the feedback controller, a propeller pitch command is determined based on the speed error and using the gain. The pitch of the variable-pitch propeller is adjusted according to the propeller pitch command to reduce the speed error.

Model-based speed governing for variable-pitch propeller

Methods and systems relating to the design and testing of systems that include hinged flight control surfaces of aircraft are disclosed. The systems and methods disclosed herein make use of a structural model representing a structural environment of the system in a relatively simple manner. In various embodiments, the structural model comprises one or more actuation branches having a common linear actuation direction, a load mass, and a massless connector representative of a hinge line of the flight control surface. The massless connector is connected to and disposed between the one or more actuation branches and the load mass and is movable along the common linear actuation direction so that linear movement of the massless connector is correlated to rotational movement of the hinged flight control surface.

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Saint-Bruno, Canada

Gabriel Meunier