Tracking Performance of Distributed Recoverable Flight Control Systems Subject to High Intensity Radiated Fields

Author

Rui Wang ; Gray, W. Steven ; Gonzalez, Oscar R. ; Chavez-Fuentes, Jorge R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA, USA

Volume

49

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Jan. 2013

Firstpage

521

Lastpage

542

Abstract

Theoretical tools are presented to analyze the relationship between the design choices for a class of NASA-inspired fault-tolerant, reconfigurable computer architectures and the tracking performance degradation of a digital flight control system implemented on such a platform while operating in a high-intensity radiated field (HIRF) environment. A HIRF experiment was conducted at the NASA Langley Research Center to validate the theory for a distributed Boeing 747 flight control system subject to HIRF upsets.

Keywords

aerospace control; aircraft computers; computer architecture; control engineering computing; fault tolerance; reconfigurable architectures; target tracking; HIRF environment; NASA Langley Research Center; NASA-inspired fault-tolerant; digital flight control system; distributed Boeing 747 flight control system; distributed recoverable flight control systems; high intensity radiated fields; reconfigurable computer architectures; tracking performance degradation; Aerospace control; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Distributed computing; Joints; Markov processes; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9251

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAES.2013.6404118

Filename

6404118