SteadyControl® Rotor

NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR

ROTOR TRACK AND
BALANCE TUNING
1 O/T.EV
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Model

Cabin vibration level

5W

Vibration level
10W

1W

2W
3W 4W

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Frequency (Hz)

adjustment Fourier coefficients

parameters (first rotor harmonics)

a H g
2 O/T.EV
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Transfer function identification :

Cabin vibration level

Vibration level
5W

10W

1W
a
i
j -1 wik j
i a
k
j
k 2W
3W 4W

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Frequency (Hz)

Input layer Output layer

Feed Forward
Neural Networks
3 O/T.EV
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Optimization (tuning phase) :

The vector of the optimized adjustment parameters

a is computed by minimizing the cost function :

g H(a) W g H(a)
T

Where g is vibration vector of the maladjusted aircraft

and W a weight matrix

The cabin vibrations are measured in the 4 specific

flight stages
4 O/T.EV
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Optimization (tuning phase) :

The matrix W is constructed to ensure a good optimization by
taking account of each parameter effect.
Cabin vibration level Cabin vibration level

Hover MCP

1W 2W 3W 1W 2W 3W
Cabin vibration level Cabin vibration level

Hover MCP

1W 2W 3W 1W 2W 3W
Cabin vibration level Cabin vibration level

Hover MCP
5 O/T.EV

1W 2W 3W 1W 2W 3W
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Flight Tests on EC155

XYZ cadre9°
YZ copil
Z pil
6 O/T.EV
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1/Rev Unbalance Influence

40 200

sol 20 0

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
20 100

DES 0
10
-100

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
20 200

100kts
10 0

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
20 100

0
PMC 10
-100

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
Module (mg)
7 O/T.EV

Phase (°)
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2/Rev Unbalance Influence

10 200

sol 5 0

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
10 200

DES 5 0

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
10 100

0
100kts 5
-100

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
10 0

5 -100
PMC
0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
8 O/T.EV

Module (mg) Phase (°)

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1/Rev Pitch Rod Influence

15 200

10 100
sol
5 0

0 -100
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
20 200

DES 10 0

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
30 200

20
100kts 0
10

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
30 200

20
0
PMC 10

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
9 O/T.EV

Module (mg) Phase (°)

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2/Rev Pitch Rod Influence

10 200

sol 5 0

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
10 200

100
DES 5
0

0 -100
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
10 200

100kts 5 0

0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
10 200

5 0
PMC
0 -200
Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil Xarr Yarr Zarr Ycop Zcop Zpil
10 O/T.EV

Module (mg) Phase (°)

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- Classical tuning
with Stroboscope Misadjustment SteadyControl tuning

??
ground ground ground

Hover Hover
Hover
??
100kts 100kts 100kts

MCP MCP
11 O/T.EV

MCP
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Vibration levels before & after SteadyRotor tuning :

Acceleration (mg) Acceleration (mg)

80 40

60 30

40 20
20 10

0 0
Xrear Yrear Zrear Ycop Zcop Zpil Xrear Yrear Zrear Ycop Zcop Zpil
Ground 1 W Hover 1 W

Acceleration (mg) Acceleration (mg)

50 50
40 40
30 30
20 20
10 10
0 0
Xrear Yrear Zrear Ycop Zcop Zpil Xrear Yrear Zrear Ycop Zcop Zpil
100kts 1W
12 O/T.EV

MCP 1 W
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- Misadjustment
Flight Tests on EC120
SteadyControl tuning

Ground (ips)
0.5

0
ground XcargoYcargoZcargoYcopi Zcopi Zpil ground
Hover (ips)

0.5

0
Hover XcargoYcargoZcargoYcopi Zcopi Zpil Hover
80kts (ips)

0.5

0
XcargoYcargoZcargoYcopi Zcopi Zpil
100kts 100kts
MCP (ips)

0.5

0
13 O/T.EV

XcargoYcargoZcargoYcopi Zcopi Zpil

MCP MCP