Mathematical Model Identification for Flight Simulation, Based on Flight and Taxi Tests

摘要

The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) in Amsterdam and the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of Technology (DUT) were selected to develop the mathematical model and data package of a Cessna Citation 500 aircraft. The mathematical model will be used to drive a FAA Phase II flight simulator, which will be applied to civil aviation pilot training by the Dutch Government Civil Aviation School (RLS) in the Netherlands. Using the simulator, part of the type training can be transferred from the aircraft to the simulator, enabling the RLS to reduce its fleet from six to three of these business jets. In the paper special emphasis is on system identification techniques, applied to synthesize the aircraft models and on the validation of the Citation 500 mathematical model, using different kinds of simulation techniques.