Research on fault-tolerant flight control computer for unmanned air vehicle

Abstract

With the development of high altitude long endurance UAV, Flight Control System in high altitude long endurance UAV must have so strong failure-tolerant ability that it can improve the whole system reliability. Using redundancy technique can extremely improve failure-tolerant and reliability of flight control system. Compared among civil and military aircraft and UAV, the architectures and redundancy management of fault-tolerant flight control computer (FCC) systems are introduced. Then, give a new architectures and redundancy management of fault-tolerant FCC systems for high altitude long endurance UAV. The experimental results show that the system meets the UAV’s demand of high reliability, low cost and good expansibility, maximize the utilization of system resources and effectively improve the fault tolerant capability of airborne computer and the reliability of sensor subsystem. With fault injection test method, the results show that the fault tolerant methods improve fault detection rate and fault isolation rate.