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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
May. 29, 2001
Alan B. Hickman, Cave Creek, AZ (US);
Honeywell Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
The dynamic stiffness of a flight control actuator is assessed by providing an actuator control system that includes an actuator and a portion of the actuator is coupled to an aircraft control surface. A command signal is applied to the actuator control system, which causes the production of a pressure differential across the actuator in response to the command signal that is based on the ability of the actuator to react to an inertial load generated by an acceleration of the aircraft control surface. A pressure signal representative of the pressure differential across the actuator is processed and the pressure signal is compared to known pressure differential values produced under similar conditions for specific actuator and specific control surface combinations.