Manager, Flight Control System Development
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Fly-by-wire flight control system design of a multi-role fighter aircraft spanned over a decade from concept, system specification, system design, modelling & simulation, functional testing of flight control software, HITL simulation and system integration leading to the first flight.Led the design and development of pitch control system, boundary limiting control system, lateral control system for rolling the aircraft, and take-off/landing control systems.Developed highly reliable sensor system for the primary flight control system based on complimentary filtering and coordinate transformation. Formulated possible failure modes of flight control system and redundancy management algorithms. Designed controllers for failure modes and a backup controller for extreme failure conditions.Instrumental in developing a hardware-in-loop flight control system facility that integrates digital flight control computer, avionic systems, head-up-display systems and actuation systems of an aircraft. Carried out testing and evaluation of embedded flight control system