Patent ID: 8584989

Claim:
A method of managing movement of an aircraft on the ground, the aircraft having at least one left main undercarriage and at least one right main undercarriage, each having wheels associated with torque application members for applying torque to the wheels in response to a general setpoint, the general setpoint comprising a longitudinal acceleration setpoint and an angular speed setpoint, wherein the method comprises the successive steps of: from the general setpoint, determining for each of the undercarriages an undercarriage acceleration setpoint in such a manner that the undercarriage acceleration setpoints together enable the general setpoint to be satisfied; for each of the undercarriages, determining from the undercarriage acceleration setpoint and for each of the wheels of said undercarriage, a wheel acceleration setpoint in such a manner that the wheel acceleration setpoints together correspond to the undercarriage acceleration setpoint; and for each of the wheels, determining from the wheel acceleration setpoint a general torque setpoint for the torque to be generated by the torque application member associated with said wheel in such a manner that the general torque setpoint enables the wheel acceleration setpoint to be satisfied, and in such a manner that the torques applied to the wheels by the torque application members in response to the general torque setpoints together enable the aircraft to satisfy the general setpoint.