This report documents the work done under a NASA sponsored contract to transition to industry technologies developed under the NASA Lewis Research Center IMPAC (Integrated Methodology for Propulsion and Airframe Control) program. The critical steps in IMPAC are exercised on an example integrated flight/propulsion control design for linear airframe/engine models of a conceptual STOVL (Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing) aircraft, and MATRIXX (TM) executive files to implement each step are developed. The results from the example study are analyzed and lessons learned are listed along with recommendations that will improve the application of each design step. The end product of this research is a set of software requirements for developing a user-friendly control design tool which will automate the steps in the IMPAC methodology. Prototypes for a graphical user interface (GUI) are sketched to specify how the tool will interact with the user, and it is recommended to build the tool around existing computer aided control design software packages.
Assessment of Impac - Integrated Methodology for Propulsion and Airframe Controls
1996
94 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Avionics , Aircraft engines , Airframes , Applications programs (Computers) , Computer aided design , Control systems design , Feedback control , Flight control , Propulsion system configurations , Systems integration , Aerodynamic configurations , Computer programming , Control theory , Controllers , Graphical user interface , Partitions (Mathematics) , Propulsion system performance , Transfer functions , V/stol aircraft