Increasingly, as flight-control laws become more complex and sample times shorten, implementation requirements are outstripping the capacity of general-purpose single-processor systems. This has prompted the investigation described in the paper of the feasibility of using a parallel-processing transputer-based network, programmed in occam, for the implementation of an aircraft-flight-control algorithm. Although the problems of flight-control implementation motivated the study, the research findings have wider applicability. Three techniques to generate the concurrent realisation of a typical flight-control law are described and illustrated together with some indications of their strengths and weaknesses. On the basis of this preliminary study, one of these approaches is suggested as a practical way to tackle the problem. Software tools have been used and developed to automate the mapping of control laws onto transputer-based systems. These have proved to be effective and convenient aids, supporting real-time simulation and implementation.


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    Title :

    Implementation of a transputer-based flight controller


    Additional title:

    Einführung eines Transputer-Flugreglers


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1990


    Size :

    7 Seiten, 21 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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