Mission profiles analysis: guidelines to aircraft actuators new technology specification

Abstract

International audienceThe aim of the current paper is to propose innovative standard tools and models for new electromechanical actuators (EMAs) specifications release. This objective is motivated by a strong demand of the aeronautic industry especially to cut down development time and cost. The paper highlights new design drivers and limitations induced by such a technology and the challenges to rise. It explains how to take care of those imperfections, early, at requirements document writing phase, and how to integrate and test it into the aircraft loop. A Matlab-Simulink li-brary, based on presented model, has been ap-plied successfully on various examples of EMAs for primary flight control of an aircraft. It can be used as a help for specifications severity comparison and mission profile adaptation or data extraction