Need for a general specification for vehicle management systems

Author

Grevstad, Kurt ; Turner, Louie, III

Author_Institution

Boeing Defense & Space Group, Seattle, WA, USA

fYear

1992

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

12

Abstract

The need to reform the vehicle management system (VMS) specification approach currently used in air vehicle design is addressed, and the changes that should be made to the current specifications to accommodate the modern approach to aircraft system design are discussed. The need for a new VMS specification was realized during the development of a requirements definition document for a fly-by-light VMS that could be applied to a new generation of fighter aircraft for multirole missions. It is recommended that a general specification for VMSs be developed following the format of AFGS-87242A General Specification for flight control systems

Keywords

aerospace computer control; aircraft control; formal specification; military computing; military systems; AFGS-87242A General Specification; air vehicle design; aircraft system design; fighter aircraft; fly-by-light; general specification; multirole missions; requirements definition document; vehicle management systems; Aerospace control; Aircraft propulsion; Centralized control; Control systems; Data buses; Military aircraft; Power system management; Valves; Vehicles; Voice mail;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1992. Proceedings., IEEE/AIAA 11th

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0820-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.1992.282190

Filename

282190