Evaluating Real-Time Platforms for Aircraft Prognostic Health Management Using Hardware-In-The-Loop

摘要

Aircraft power demands continue to increase with the increase in electrical subsystems. These subsystems directly affect the behavior of the power and propulsion systems and can no longer be neglected or assumed linear in system analyses and prognostic health management (PHM) schemes. The complex models designed to integrate new capabilities have a high computational cost. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) is being used to investigate aircraft power systems by using a combination of hardware and simulations. This paper considers two different real-time simulators in the same HIL configuration. A representative electrical power system is removed from a turbine engine simulation and is replaced with the appropriate hardware attached to a 350 horsepower drive stand. Variables are passed between the hardware and the simulation in real- time to update model parameters and to synchronize the hardware with the model. Real-time simulation platforms from dSPACE, National Instruments (NI), and Math Works' xPC are utilized for this investigation. Similar results are obtained when using HIL and a simulated load.