Steuereinrichtung

摘要

1,105,460. Controlling aircraft. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. 25 March, 1965 [26 March, 1964], No. 12728/65. Heading B7G. In a prior art self-adaptive control system for an aircraft pitch control channel demanded pitch rate #c is applied to a subtraction circuit 21 together with a feedback signal #f derived by a rate gyro 12, and an actuator 20 operates a control surface 111 of an aircraft 11 so that pitch rate # follows demanded pitch rate signal #c. The output from 21 is integrated at 13 and the resultant signal is added to further signals from a multiplifier 14 and canceller 15 arranged in parallel and fed to adaptive section 31. This consists of a sensor 17 which measures the time interval between zero crossings of a time varying signal, a memory 18 and a variable multiplier 19. According to a first embodiment of the invention, wherein Fig. 2 shows a preferred form of adaptive section 31, an input from canceller 15 is passed to a band-pass filter 26 which passes signals in the neighbourhood of the desired constant damped natural frequency of the system, such signals being sensed by an integrator 30 in the form of a capacitor 41 and ratio multiplying resistors 42, 43 to determine the damping of the system. Successive half-cycles are gated at 46, 47 to respective resistors 42, 43 under the control of a sequence generator 45 which is triggered by a zero-crossing detector 32. The read-out from integrator 30 is gated by a gate 48 and transmitted to a memory 18 which adds a damping signalincrement to adjust the variable multiplier 19. A multivibrator in sequence generator 45 operates a reset switch 49 which discharges capacitor 41.