Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control - Digital Flight Control, Aircraft Model Identification, and Adaptive Engine Control

Baer-Riedhart, Jennifer L. and Landy, Robert J. (1987) Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control - Digital Flight Control, Aircraft Model Identification, and Adaptive Engine Control. Technical Report NASA TM-86793, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

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Abstract

The highly integrated digital electronic control (HIDEC) program at NASA Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility is a multiphase flight research program to quantify the benefits of promising integrated control systems. McDonnell Aircraft Company is the prime contractor, with United Technologies Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, and Lear Siegler Incorporated as major subcontractors. The NASA F-15A testbed aircraft was modified for the HIDEC program by installing a digital electronic flight control system (DEFCS) and replacing the standard F100 (Arab 3) engines with F100 engine model derivative (EMD) engines equipped with digital electronic engine controls (DEEC), and integrating the DEECs and DEFCS. The modified aircraft provides the capability for testing many integrated control modes involving the flight controls, engine controls, and inlet controls. This paper focuses on the first two phases of the HIDEC program, which are the digital flight control system/aircraft model identification (DEFCS/AMI) phase and the adaptive engine control system (ADECS) phase.

EPrint Type:	NASA Technical Memorandum
Keywords:	Adaptive engine stall margin, Advanced F100 engine, Digital electronic engine control (DEEC), F-15 aircraft, Flight test, Flightpath management, Increased thrust, Improved operability, Integrated control
Subjects:	Aircraft/Project: F-15 HIDEC (01 - 09) Aeronautics: (07) Aircraft Propulsion And Power
ID Code:	497
Deposited On:	19 January 2006
Additional Information:	16 pages. Prepared as AIAA Paper 85-1877 for presentation at the AIAA Guidance and Control Conference, Snowmass, Colorado, August 19-21, 1985.