Patent ID: 9533751
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: B64C,G05B,G05D

Claim:
1. A multi-axis fly-by-wire flight control system of an aircraft, the system comprising: at least one flight control surface for controlling a pitch directional axis of the aircraft; at least one flight control surface for controlling a roll directional axis of the aircraft; at least one flight control surface for controlling a yaw directional axis of the aircraft; a plurality of input controls each capable of generating a signal indicative of a commanded position of a corresponding control; a plurality of control paths, each control path controlling at least one of the flight control surfaces and comprising a plurality of flight surface controllers; and a plurality of flight control computers coupled to at least one flight surface controller of each controller path that each generates flight surface commands according to predetermined flight control algorithms in part as a function of the signals, wherein only one of said plurality of flight control computers is an active primary flight control computer at any given time with the remaining computers of said plurality running in standby.