DELANNOY, STEPHANE (AIRBUS FRANCE SAS)

Gstar, Airbus Generic Control Laws

Scheduled for presentation during the Regular Session "Aircraft flight control analysis and design 3" (FrM21), Friday, April 5, 2019, 12:00−12:30, Carassa-Dadda

5th CEAS Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, April 3-5, 2019, Milano, Italy

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on April 18, 2024

Abstract

When designing the control laws for a new program, the aircraft manufacturer has to face to numerous constraints: New hardware, new system architecture, new structural specificities, new functions, new certification basis. More, automatic control theory improves continuously. Then the engineers develop, each time, a new set of control laws. It needs some time in development phase, but also during the flight test phase. To save time, reduce cost and to minimize risk of such novelties develop-ments, a new (once again, but breaking the rules) concept has been de-signed: GSTAR, or G*, the Generic Control laws. This concept proposes a new way of designing and computing the control laws, absolutely generic. The same set of laws is applied to all AIRBUS family members, covering almost all the functions, from take-off to land-ing, in manual and automatic modes, including all the flight domain pro-tections.