Monitoring of a flight control actuator of an aircraft

摘要

The system has a set of sensors e.g. pressure sensor (3a), position sensor (3b), thermal sensor (3c) and sensor (3d), provided in a flight control actuator (1) to collect, during each flight of aircraft, series of measurements of parameters relative to the actuator. A processing unit (5) calculates a set of damage indicators by cumulatively using the series of measurements observed during each of the aircraft's successive flights. A non-volatile memory (7) stores the set of damage indicators, where the memory is integrated in the actuator. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a method for monitoring a flight control actuator of an aircraft (2) a computer program comprising code instructions for implementing a method for monitoring a flight control actuator of an aircraft when program is executed by a processing unit.