Case Study
Purely Electric
CUSTOMERS PAGE 14 ZFL and Sikorsky are developing new electrical rotor control technology Electric Purely ZF Luftfahrttechnik (ZFL) and Sikorsky have teamed up to develop a new electrical rotor control system (LIBRAS TM ) that provides primary flight control and individual blade control for vibration and noise reduction, power sav- ings, and additional performance enhancements for helicopters in a single system. A dSPACE system is being used to read and process sensor data from the rotor head and control the system to help identify and optimize control functions. dSPACE Magazine 2/2020 · © dSPACE GmbH, Paderborn, Germany · info@dspace.com · www.dspace.comPAGE 15 SIKORSKY I n 1939, the world got a glimpse of the first successful helicopter flight. The VS-300 was conceived by