A virtual sensor for normal acceleration has been developed and implemented in the flight control system of a small commercial aircraft. The inputs of the virtual sensor are the consolidated outputs of dissimilar sensor signals. The virtual sensor is a fuzzy model of the Takagi-Sugeno type and it has been identified from simulated data, using a detailed, realistic Matlab/SimulinkTM model used by the aircraft manufacturer. This virtual sensor can be applied to identify a failed sensor in the case that only two real sensors are available and even to detect a failure of the last available sensor
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Decision and Control, 2000. Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Conference on
(Volume:3
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Date of Conference: 2000