A low cost, rapid evaluation, test aircraft is used to develop and test airframe damage diagnosis algorithms at Langley Research Center as part of NASA's Aviation Safety Program. The remotely operated subscale aircraft is instrumented with sensors to monitor structural response during flight. Data is collected for good and compromised airframe configurations to develop data driven models for diagnosing airframe state. This paper describes the data acquisition system (DAS) of the rapid evaluation test aircraft. A PC/104 form factor DAS was developed to allow use of Matlab, Simulink simulation code in Langley's existing subscale aircraft flight test infrastructure. The small scale of the test aircraft permitted laboratory testing of the actual flight article under controlled conditions. The low cost and modularity of the DAS permitted adaptation to various flight experiment requirements.
Data System for a Rapid Evaluation Class of Subscale Aerial Vehicle
2011
32 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Computers, Control & Information Theory , Aircraft , Test Facilities & Equipment , Airframes , Data systems , Systems analysis , Algorithms , Data acquisition , Pilotless aircraft , Low cost , Computerized simulation , Modularity , Ethernet , Central processing units , Calibrating , Control surfaces , Flight safety
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