Vtol Controls for Shipboard Operations

Document Number: 831428

Date Published: October 1983

Author(s):
V. K. Merrick - NASA Ames Research Center
R. M. Gerdes - NASA Ames Research Center

Abstract:
Piloted, moving-base simulations have been performed in the evaluation of several VTOL control system concepts during landings on a destroyer in adverse weather conditions. All the systems incorporated attitude control augmentation; most systems incorporated various types of translational control augmentation implemented either through aircraft attitude or, more directly, through the propulsion system (thrust magnitude and deflection). Only one of the control systems failed to provide satisfactory handling qualities in calm seas. Acceptable handling qualities in sea state 6 seem to require a system with control augmentation in all translational degrees of freedom.

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