Design and Simulation of Novel Control Architecture for the Movement of Commercial Aircraft Cabin Door

This work describes the architecture and modeling to control the movement of commercial aircraft cabin door using electro-mechanical actuator. An accurate door model system is integrated with brush-less direct current motor that offers high torque to achieve the motion trajectory. Proportional-integral control scheme is incorporated to achieve speed and position control of cabin door. The proposed scheme offers two salient characteristics: Firstly, the leakage problem of the traditional hydraulic system has been addressed. Secondly, it substantially reduces the power drawn from the aircraft engine. Finally, the numerical simulation results are exhibited that prove the efficacy of the proposed strategy.