Experimental and theoretical study of the electrical failures in a fault-tolerant direct-drive servovalve for primary flight actuators

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering

Volumn 222, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 757-769

  Di Rito, G ^a   Galatolo, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Direct drive servovalve; Failure analysis; Fault tolerant actuators; Flight control; Modelling and simulation; Testing

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AEROSPACE VEHICLES; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FAULT LOCATION; EXPERIMENTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); QUALITY ASSURANCE; SAFETY FACTOR; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS;

COMPONENT DYNAMICS; DIRECT-DRIVE SERVOVALVE; DRIVE MOTORS; ELECTRICAL FAILURES; FAULT-TOLERANT; FAULT-TOLERANT ACTUATORS; FIDELITY MODELS; FLIGHT CONTROL; MODELLING AND SIMULATION; SHORT CIRCUITS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; TEST PROCEDURES; TEST RESULTS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 56749096765     PISSN: 09596518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09596518JSCE588     Document Type: Article

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