Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1989. NAECON 1989., Proceedings of the IEEE 1989 National
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH
DOI :
10.1109/NAECON.1989.40455
