Concept for Hull-Loss Free Aircraft – Fuzzy Expert for More Advanced Automation in Flight Control

摘要

What is discussed here is a pursuit for the ultra safety transport in the operation, targeting mainly to eliminate human related accidents. The Concept for the Hull-Loss Free Aircraft is presented as the ultra safety aircraft in the operation. Those are consisted of the highly reliable structure and systems based on the fault tolerant design concept, the more automation based on the autonomous control law, and the compatible Air Traffic Control (ATC) system based on the autonomous control and digital communication with the aircraft. The author reminds the importance to place the Flight Command System as a top layer in the flight control for the autonomous operation of the aircraft, including to the ATC interface, and stresses the effectiveness of the Fuzzy Expert System as core control logic to complete the autonomous control in the aircraft. The example of the computer simulation by the logic for the collision avoidance in the air is presented. The co-existence by an autonomous system and a pilot is referred to have well possibility, taking into consideration that the human body and brain has unconscious, and autonomous controls in many ways. The one-man pilot, the windowless cockpit, 10-12 -failures/flight hour system reliability requirement for a critical failure as a specification, the autonomous controlled ATC with the digital interface with the aircraft, etc. Are proposed in the extension of the discussion.