Vehicle control system incorporating a compensator to stabilize the inherent dynamics thereof
AssigneeLockheed Corporation
InventorJohn Evans Hart
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Abstract
A control system is specifically designed to improve the performance of an aircraft or other vehicle having undesirable dynamic characteristics. For this purpose there is employed a compensator, either hydromechanical or electrical (hydro-electrical) depending upon the basic control system, which is incorporated into that system and modifies command inputs to the directional controls of the vehicle. This compensator is designed and preset to impose predetermined dynamic characteristics on the command inputs so as to create a resulting input which eliminates or substantially diminishes the undesirable dynamic characteristics.
Claims10
In combination with the control system of a vehicle having an adjustable directional control element, an actuating mechanism for said control element and a controller operable by the driver of said vehicle for the selected movement of said mechanism whereby said control element is adjusted and the direction of movement of said vehicle effected accordingly, a compensator, pre-set with dynamic motion characteristics essentially equal to and opposite from the inherent undesirable dynamic motion characteristics of said vehicle over a preselected operating range operably connected to said mechanism and actuated by movement of said controller at a predetermined motion different from that of said controller at all times during movement of said controller whereby the inherent undesirable dynamic motion characteristics of said vehicle are substantially negated.
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