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Whenever I'm flying on the B787, I prefer to sit right behind the wing to watch the flaperons do their thing. I know it's a little different than this, as it's
by SomeCollegeBro 3y ago
Whenever I'm flying on the B787, I prefer to sit right behind the wing to watch the flaperons do their thing. I know it's a little different than this, as it's more of a PID driven behavior rather than an active predictive system. But regardless, it's quite impressive to watch how they are constantly reacting despite the plane seemingly not moving at all. They move very delicate and precise, which must be difficult to do when travelling at 500mph.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>as it's more of a PID driven behavior rather than an active predictive system Self tuning and active predictive PID controllers are also a thing aided by the 'ye olde' faithful Kalman-Filter. At least I remember reading about them in research papers. Now what exactly from those has materialized in commercial applications, I have no idea, since it's not like they publish such in depth info in the public facing spec sheet.
- wkipling 3y agoTechnically not flaperons but drooping ailerons