Aircraft cabin pressure control system and method for reducing outflow valve actuator induced cabin pressure oscillations

摘要

A cabin pressure control system (100) and method that reduces or inhibits gear train (138) backlash and the concomitant cabin pressure oscillations associated therewith. The cabin pressure control system (100) includes a variable proportional-integral (PI) controller (102) that implements a proportional function with a variable gain term and an integrator function with variable saturation limit. The proportional function gain term is increased, and the integrator saturation limits are decreased, at relatively low cabin error rate magnitudes. Increasing the proportional function gain term at relatively low cabin error rate magnitudes offsets potential backlash effects from the gear train (138). Decreasing the integrator saturation limits at relatively low cabin rate error magnitudes reduces potentially excessive integrator wind-up levels, which reduces the likelihood of producing limit-cycling and the potential for cabin pressure oscillations.