Patent ID: 8386093

Claim:
A multi-axis fly-by-wire flight control system that generates flight surface commands to control the movement of a set of flight control surfaces to control the pitch, roll or yaw directional axes of an aircraft, the system comprising: (A) a plurality of input controls each capable of generating a signal indicative of a commanded position of a corresponding control; and (B) a single flight control channel comprising: (a) a plurality of control paths, each control path controlling a different subset of the set of flight control surfaces, each control path including: (i) at least one servo loop assigned to said flight control path of the single flight control channel, said servo loop controlling the movement of at least one predetermined flight control surface such that the at least one servo loop in said control path operates to control the aircraft in at least one of the roll, pitch or yaw directional axes; (ii) at least one flight control surface controller configured to receive at least one of the signals and is coupled to said at least one servo loop; and (b) a plurality of flight control computers coupled to the at least one flight control surface controller of each control path, which flight control computers each generate flight surface commands according to predetermined flight control algorithms in part as a function of the signals.