DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-LANE SMART ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATORS

Design and Development of Multi-Lane Smart Electromechanical Actuators presents the design of electromechanical actuators in two types of architectures, namely, Torque Summed Architecture (TSA) and Velocity Summed Architecture, (VSA). It examines them in: * Hardware redundancy, where the architecture is made up of 3 or 4 lanes. * Digital Math Model redundancy, where a more compact two lanes architectures will be presented. The book starts with the very basic concepts and introduces the design process logically so that an understanding of the smart multi-lane systems that drive an aileron on an aircraft system is developed. Readers will be able to identify and meet design specs, before and after failures. To aid understanding it also includes simulation tests for various flight cases and aircraft speeds. This book will give readers the necessary theoretical background to design smart multilane electromechanical actuation systems and will provide a general methodology that engineers (electrical, mechanical, mechatronics, aerospace or chemical) will find useful. It will be invaluable for multi-disciplinary engineers.