Application of Computer Technology in Transportation.
Today, computers are everywhere performing more and more tasks than they ever have before. The rapid evolution in the computer technologies have significant impact in the human race, as human are so connected to these technologies. Computers have helped to serve people to conduct their activity more productively, error-proof, and efficiently in all contrast of their everyday life than human workers. The benefits that computers have on people is incomparably immense that it wasn’t even thought this technology could impact human lives to this extend when it was built for the first time. There is hardly any area where this technology has not invaded. The transportation, manufacturing industries, …show more content…
Now, they are used in all parts of the aviation. The first computer installed in the aviation depends on the one’s definition of a computer, which isn 't known when, where, and who used the first computer to fly. However, computers to fly existed since a decade after the right brothers flew Kitty Hawk. “The brilliant U.S. engineer Elmer Sperry adapted gyroscopes-which consists of spinning weights that maintained a specific orientation- to electric and pneumatic control system connected to an airplane’s flight controls” [1], which later became an autopilot that we have now in modern aircrafts, was a primitive type of computer used in the aviation. The modern fly-by-wire aircrafts are fully loaded with thousands of computers and computer applications to fully control the aircrafts, to provides inboard entertainment, onboard shopping, onboard WIFI, GPS systems, and many more. The fast pace development and improvement in the technology has vastly impacted the aviation industry to continually improve the safety, security, and efficiency of modern aircrafts. With the advances in the computer technology, now-a-day aircraft has computer systems to control and fly the aircraft on its own replacing manual flight control. Computer systems that are embedded in the spacecraft regulate and control the flight of an aircraft by converting the movements of flight controls in to electrical signals which are transmitted by wires that helps to …show more content…
How does fly-by-wire flies and control the flight of aircraft? In a fly-by-wire aircraft, the pilot is required to inputs the commands through control column or yoke and that command signal is sent to a computer actuator to deflect a flight control surface (4). The commands send by the pilot is interpreted by Flight Control System complex software to a digital signals and “performs calculations based on the Flight Control Laws programmed into the Flight Controlling Computers and input from the Air Data inertial Reference Units and other sensors” and hence, “the computer then commands the flight control surface to adopt a configuration that will achieve the desire flight path” (2). Fly-by-wire control system is standard in modern aircrafts and has significantly reduced the pilot job of flying aircraft physically handling and controlling the hydraulic control
Today, computers are everywhere performing more and more tasks than they ever have before. The rapid evolution in the computer technologies have significant impact in the human race, as human are so connected to these technologies. Computers have helped to serve people to conduct their activity more productively, error-proof, and efficiently in all contrast of their everyday life than human workers. The benefits that computers have on people is incomparably immense that it wasn’t even thought this technology could impact human lives to this extend when it was built for the first time. There is hardly any area where this technology has not invaded. The transportation, manufacturing industries, …show more content…
Now, they are used in all parts of the aviation. The first computer installed in the aviation depends on the one’s definition of a computer, which isn 't known when, where, and who used the first computer to fly. However, computers to fly existed since a decade after the right brothers flew Kitty Hawk. “The brilliant U.S. engineer Elmer Sperry adapted gyroscopes-which consists of spinning weights that maintained a specific orientation- to electric and pneumatic control system connected to an airplane’s flight controls” [1], which later became an autopilot that we have now in modern aircrafts, was a primitive type of computer used in the aviation. The modern fly-by-wire aircrafts are fully loaded with thousands of computers and computer applications to fully control the aircrafts, to provides inboard entertainment, onboard shopping, onboard WIFI, GPS systems, and many more. The fast pace development and improvement in the technology has vastly impacted the aviation industry to continually improve the safety, security, and efficiency of modern aircrafts. With the advances in the computer technology, now-a-day aircraft has computer systems to control and fly the aircraft on its own replacing manual flight control. Computer systems that are embedded in the spacecraft regulate and control the flight of an aircraft by converting the movements of flight controls in to electrical signals which are transmitted by wires that helps to …show more content…
How does fly-by-wire flies and control the flight of aircraft? In a fly-by-wire aircraft, the pilot is required to inputs the commands through control column or yoke and that command signal is sent to a computer actuator to deflect a flight control surface (4). The commands send by the pilot is interpreted by Flight Control System complex software to a digital signals and “performs calculations based on the Flight Control Laws programmed into the Flight Controlling Computers and input from the Air Data inertial Reference Units and other sensors” and hence, “the computer then commands the flight control surface to adopt a configuration that will achieve the desire flight path” (2). Fly-by-wire control system is standard in modern aircrafts and has significantly reduced the pilot job of flying aircraft physically handling and controlling the hydraulic control