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The fundamental concept of dependability is applied to the design of commercial airplane FBW systems beyond the lessons learned from the NASA FBW and industry/military FBW research and development projects. The considerations of generic errors and common mode failures play important role for configuring commercial airplane FBW system architectures and the FBW computer architectures.
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Yeh, Y.C.(. (2004). Unique Dependability Issues for Commercial Airplane Fly by Wire Systems. In: Jacquart, R. (eds) Building the Information Society. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 156. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8157-6_19
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