Force fight mitigation
AssigneeGoodrich Actuation Systems Limited
InventorJeremy Judey
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Abstract
A force fight mitigation system comprising: control means configured to provide a position command to each of two or more actuators arranged to position a surface, the position command indicative of a desired position of the actuator relative to the surface; means to detect the actual position of the actuator relative to the surface in response to the position command; and means to determine an offset between the desired position and the actual position and to store a rigging correction based on the offset; wherein, for each actuator, an offset is determined for each of three or more desired positions.
Claims6
A force fight mitigation system comprising:
- control means configured to provide a position command to each of two or more actuators arranged to position a surface, the position command indicative of a desired position of the actuator relative to the surface;
- means to detect the actual position of the actuator relative to the surface in response to the position command;
- and means to determine an offset between the desired position and the actual position and to store a rigging correction based on the offset;
- wherein, for each actuator, an offset is determined for each of three or more desired positions.
A method of mitigating force-fighting in an actuation system comprising two or more actuators arranged to position a surface;
- the method comprising determining an offset between a desired position of the actuator relative to the surface and an actual position of the actuator relative to the surface for each actuator for three or more desired positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.