A High Fidelity AIRBUS Benchmark for System Fault Detection and Isolation and Flight Control Law Clearance

This paper presents a high fidelity generic twin engine civil aircraft model developed by Airbus for advanced flight control system research. The main features of this benchmark are described to make the reader aware of the model complexity and representativeness. It is a complete representation including the nonlinear rigid-body aircraft model with a full set of control surfaces, actuator models, sensor models, flight control laws and pilot inputs. Two concrete uses of this benchmark in the framework of European projects are presented: flight control laws clearance using optimisation and advanced fault detection and diagnosis.