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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2000
Panxika Larramendy, Toulouse, FR;
Aerospatiale Matra Airbus, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system for the yaw control of an aircraft fitted with a plurality of engines, the system (SC) comprising in particular a computation unit ( ) formulating a command dr for yaw control, dr=Ka.&PHgr; +Kb.p+Kc.&PHgr;+Kd.r+Ke.&bgr;, on the basis of the controlled roll attitude &PHgr; , of the roll rate p, of the effective roll attitude &PHgr;, of the yaw rate r, of the sideslip &bgr; and of gains Ka, Kb, Kc, Kd and Ke which are fixed by a device ( ). According to the invention, the system (SC) comprises a a device ( ) for detecting any fault with an engine of the aircraft, and the device ( ) is formed in such a way as to modify the values of the gains Ka, Kd and Ke relating respectively to the controlled roll attitude &PHgr; , to the yaw rate r and to the sideslip &bgr;, upon the detection by the device ( ) of a fault with an engine of the aircraft.
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