The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) Advanced Simulation Center (ASC) provides hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) simulation support to Program Executive Officers (PEO) and Project Managers (PM) who are responsible for developing and fielding precision guided missiles and sub-munitions for the U.S. Army. HWIL simulation provides a means of exercising missile guidance and control hardware in simulated flight, wherein the missile sensors are stimulated with input signals which make the system behave as though it were in actual operation. Real-time computers are used to control the target and countermeasure signatures and battlefield scenarios. Missile flight dynamics, responding to the commands issued by the guidance and control system hardware/software, are simulated in real-time to determine the missile trajectory and to calculate target intercept conditions. The ASC's 12 facilities contain special purpose infrared and RF signal generation equipment, flight motion simulators, radiation chambers, optics, and computers. They provide in-band target signatures, countermeasures, and background scenarios in the microwave, millimeter wave, infrared and visible regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The ASC HWIL simulation facilities are an important source of test and evaluation data and have a critical role in all phases of a missile system life cycle. For the past three years, the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) has been developing a HWIL simulation facility to test common aperture multi-spectral missile seekers.
Use of Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation (HWIL) in the Development, Test, and Evaluation of Multi-Spectral Missile Systems
1998
11 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Missile Trajectories & Reentry Dynamics , Missile Guidance & Control Systems , Infrared & Ultraviolet Detection , Antimissile Defense Systems , Infrared homing , Guided missile simulators , Guided missile trajectories , Real time , Homing devices , Flight simulators , Test facilities , Multispectral , Hardware in the loop simulation , Hwil(Hardware in the loop) , Antimissile systems
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