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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2014
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Erez Eller, Oakville, CT (US);
Aaron L. Greenfield, Shelton, CT (US);
Ole Wulff, Ansonia, CT (US);
Matthew A. White, Milford, CT (US);
Matthew T. Luszcz, Hamden, CT (US);
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);
Abstract
One aspect is a flight control system for a rotary wing aircraft including a main rotor system and an elevator control system. A flight control computer of the flight control system includes processing circuitry configured to execute control logic. The control logic includes an inverse plant model that produces a main rotor feed forward command based on a pitch rate command, and a load alleviation control filter configured to reduce loads on a main rotor system and produce an elevator command for an elevator control system. A transformed elevator command filter produces a main rotor pitch adjustment command based on the elevator command, and a main rotor command generator generates an augmented main rotor feed forward command for the main rotor system based on the main rotor feed forward command and the main rotor pitch adjustment command.