Research and Evaluation Program on a Backup Control System for Gas Turbine Engines.

摘要

This report presents the results of a program conducted by AiResearch and funded by Harry Diamond Laboratories to investigate backup control systems for gas turbine engines which could be used in military ground vehicles. The program addressed the control system requirements that are deemed necessary to provide a military gas turbine powered vehicle with battlefield survivability and minimal restriction on the capability of completing the vehicle mission. This study showed that a parallel dissimilar technology backup control was the desirable approach and that fluidics was the ideal technology to perform this function due to its low cost, realiability, immunity to radiation, and ability to perform computation and logic commensurate with the requirements of achieving mission completion with no degradation in the vehicle's battlefield survivability. (Author)