Aircraft/control system simulation

摘要

This paper describes an aircraft/control system simulationfacility being developed at Kansas State University as part of an NSF“Flexible Embedded Control System Design” laboratoryproject. The simulation facility will support teaching and research inthe design of new and innovative flight control systems for generalaviation aircraft. The proposed system includes a navigation and pilotinformation system based on Global Positioning System (GPS) and datalink technology and a health monitoring system (HMS). The purpose of thesimulation facility is to provide the capability where designs of thisadvanced flight system can be evaluated both as individual systemelements and as part of the overall system including pilot-in-the-loopstudies. As the design progresses and prototypes of the hardware arebuilt, the simulation will permit inclusion of these hardware modules inplace of the simulation code