Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiment
Propulsion Sensors and Controls Work Package

The Controls and Dynamics Technology Branch handed over the management of this project to the AGATE project office in 1997. For any additional information regarding this project and other AGATE activities, please go to:

The AGATE Program

The goal of this government, industry and university partnership is to develop technologies for safety, affordability, and ease of use for single pilot, single engine, near all weather transportation aircraft and related training, airspace, and ground infrastructure systems.

AGATE Organizational Structure

Background

Current certified general aviation aircraft use engine control technology developed over 50 years ago. In contrast, automative engine control technology has progressed rapidly to the point where nearly all automobiles sold today have electronic ignition and electronic fuel inject controlled by an electronic engine control.

Objective

Develop and validate guidelines, standards and certification methods for certifiable electronic engine controls and diagnostics to reduce direct operating cost, improve utility, simplify operations and reduce emissions.

Approach

• Internal Combustion Engine Controls for single engine aircraft
• Internal Combustion Engine Diagnostics for single engine aircraft
• Propulsion Sensors and Controls Budget

Project Status

• Program Roadmap
• Major Accomplishments
  • Flight Experiment of Mechanical Single Lever Power Control - 1st Qtr FY97
  • Flight Experiment of Electronic Single Lever Power Control - 2nd Qtr FY97

Related Work

• SBIR/STTR Work
  • Single Lever Power Control for General Aviation and Unmanned Aircraft, 95 - 96 SBIR Phase I &II -- Aurora Flight Science
  • Intelligent Engine Controls for High Efficiency Light Aircraft, 96 STTR Phase I -- Aurora Flight Science and West Virginia University

Publications

• NASA Facts Sheet
• AGATE Flier May, 1996
• Paper on IC Engine Modelling by Jacques Richard

Participants

• Principal Members:
  Cessna Aircraft
  Cirrus Design
  Hamilton Standard
  Honeywell Technology Center
  Raytheon Aircraft
  Raytheon E-Systems
  Teledyne Continental Motors
  Textron Lycoming
  Unison Industries
  

• Associate Members:
  Aurora Flight Sciences (95, 96, ...)
  

• Consortium Member Information
  Member Information at the The Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) Website

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