Future Challenges for Civil Aircraft Systems: How to Combine Safety, Simplicity, Virtuality and Agility?

摘要

Air transport is a major contributor to global economic prosperity and is the corner stone of global commerce with a myriad of economic and societal benefits. This expanding sector is trying to respond to the increased passenger demand – doubling every 15 years – by offering the latest innovations that meet evolving passenger trends and environmental demands. In this context, some of the future challenges aircraft manufacturers will have to face include the system complexity reduction while keeping the same high-level safety standards. Fault detection, diagnosis and prognostic are also key points to address to be compliant with stringent airworthiness regulations while improving the aircraft performances and environmental footprint. Efficient system architecture has also to be designed in this context and it could be promising to consider distributed architecture. Finally, in order to decrease the development cycle, attention must be paid to the virtual testing. All these key elements, completed by some additional ones, will be broached and detailed during the presentation, with a strong industrial point of view, allowing the academia to better understand how to bridge the gap between basic research levels and engineering needs.