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Design and Implementation of Fault Tolerant Wireless Control: Aircraft Braking System Case Study

Vigneshwaran Venugopalan

Abstract


There is an increasing interest in the use of wireless communication for aerospace applications especially for closed-loop control applications. This paper presents the issues associated with wireless closed-loop control in safety-critical applications. It also highlights the advantages of a fly-by-wireless system. A case study of the design and implementation of a wireless feedback control system for an aircraft electric braking application is presented. It then proposes a fault tolerant control approach to address one of the issues of a wireless implementation that of lost data packets in feedback loops. Finally, the implemented algorithm is tested in real-time using a wireless hardware demonstrator. The effectiveness of the algorithm in real-time is assessed by deliberately introducing packet loss and radio interference.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21535%2FProICIUS.2013.v9.205

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