The use of non-dedicated redundancy in the AMCAD fault tolerant control system

Author

Thompson, Daniel B. ; Rottman, Michael S.

Author_Institution

Div of Flight Control, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

22-26 May 1989

Firstpage

1770

Abstract

The Flight Control Division of the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory has been researching the applicability of fault-tolerant multiprocessor computing architectures for flight/vehicle control. A primary goal is to utilize pools of computing resources with software-mapped redundant tasks. In the present work, the concept of logical redundancy is discussed as applied in the advanced multiprocessor control architecture development (AMCAD) conceptual system and in-house laboratory testbed. In addition, an overview of AMCAD is given

Keywords

aircraft instrumentation; control engineering computing; fault tolerant computing; military computing; multiprocessing systems; redundancy; AMCAD; Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory; Flight Control Division; advanced multiprocessor control architecture development; conceptual system; fault tolerant control system; fault-tolerant multiprocessor computing architectures; in-house laboratory testbed; logical redundancy; overview; pools of computing resources; redundancy; software-mapped redundant tasks; vehicle control; Aerospace control; Computer architecture; Control systems; Fault tolerance; Force control; Laboratories; Military computing; Redundancy; Vehicle dynamics; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1989. NAECON 1989., Proceedings of the IEEE 1989 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1989.40455

Filename

40455