Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Juan M Segal

John P Perich

Thomas M Scanlon

John W Roltgen

Samuel E Ferdon

Andrew R Markofski

Brandon J Burnett

Jason K Dahlstrom

Dale E McPherson

Ajay Karthik Ganesan

Charles Steffen

Autonomous systems increase the robustness and safety of current aircraft and to support simplified vehicle, reduced crew, and single pilot operations. The autonomous systems aid air crews in their handling of non-normal, high workload, aircraft upset scenarios. The upset scenarios include the recovery from attitudes outside of the normal operating envelope that even the most robust automatic flight control systems currently in service today do not support.

Multi-axis upset recovery system

A flight display is described. The flight display includes a display screen, a physical network interface, and multiple processors. The flight display interfaces with the flight deck by way of the physical network interface. The display screen displays images representative of avionics data in response to signals generated by one or more of the processors. The processors also generate command signals causing an actuator of the aircraft to control a flight control surface or a throttle. In this regard, the one or more of the processors perform various automatic flight control system (AFCS) functions. A system is further described including multiple of the flight displays. By hosting the AFCS functions across processors of the multiple flight displays, a level of command integrity may be reached. Furthermore, backups flight displays are available to be reconfigured to perform the AFCS functions.

Embedded display automatic flight controls distributed architecture

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Juan M Segal