Patent ID: 9540096
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: B64C,G05B,G05D

Claim:
1. A fly-by-wire flight control system of an aircraft, the system comprising: a plurality of input controls, each one of the plurality of input controls being capable of generating a signal indicative of a commanded position of at least one flight control surface; a plurality of flight control computers, each one of the plurality of flight control computers being capable of generating flight surface control commands according to predetermined flight control algorithms in part as a function of the signal, wherein at least one of the plurality of flight control computers comprises a command lane and a monitor lane capable of comparing against one another, the at least one of the plurality of flight control computers being capable of determining that it is invalid based on a self-testing regime; and a plurality of flight control surface controllers, each one of the plurality of flight control surface controllers being capable of controlling the at least one flight control surface based on at least one of (i) the flight surface control commands generated by at least one of the plurality of flight control computers and (ii) the signal.