ON FLIGHT DYNAMICS MODEL IDENTIFICATION AND OPTIMAL FLIGHT TEST PROTOCOL DESIGN

摘要

The flight dynamics models have many important applications in aircraft development which imply that their reliability must be high. To fulfill this objective, AIRBUS has developped for years an identification process but new requirements like building more accurate models in a shorter time lead to revisit this process. In this context, an optimization methodology of the flight test protocols based on the Genetic Algorithms (GA) technique has been developed. After a presentation of the current identification process at AIRBUS, this paper describes this new methodology and shows with some examples that it constitutes a viable alternative to the current procedure.