Integrated Avionics Systems

AOE 4065 – Aircraft Design

AIAA - Team #6 - 10/5/06

John Zimmer

Matt Stahr

What are Integrated Aircraft Avionics?

To pilot: all coordinated information is available from a single source

To software engineer: full access to shared data about situation, mission, and systems

To hardware designer: systems as a single unit with ample bandwidth to support processing

Avionics Systems

Navigation Communications Electronic Warfare Flight Control Displays

Fully Integrated Northrop Grumman AMMC

Courtesy Northrop Grumman

Navigational Systems

Radar Weather/terrain monitoring Air traffic tracking GPS Inertial reference systems i.e. Honeywell Primus Epic INAV and

Northrop Grumman LTN-101E GNADIRU

Communications Systems

Radio receivers/transceivers Voice-to-data Digital messaging Satellite communications

Courtesy Northrop Grumman

Electronic Warfare Systems

IFF (Identification of Friend or Foe) Jamming and countermeasures Weapons management Target sighting/tracking Defense

Courtesy http://www.cognitivedistortion.com

Flight Control Systems

Autopilot - Controls Altitude, Attitude and Heading

Measurements of position, angular velocities, and linear accelerations in all degrees of freedom

i.e. Honeywell Primus 1000, Primus 2000, and KFC 225

Courtesy Honeywell

Display Systems

HUD (Heads Up Display) HDD (Head Down Display) HMD (Head Mounted Display) All instrumentation

and gauges

Courtesy Rockwell Collins

Where We Have Been

Courtesy http://www.easa.eu.int/conference2005/presentations/day3/Cert/complex_avionics_bahrami.ppt

Where We Are Going

Mitigation/elimination of radiation and electromagnetic effects on avionics

Slowing semiconductor wear out in devices More progressive form of flight planning Greater integration of in-flight data with ground

systems Projects worked on by: Boeing, Honeywell, Smith’s

Aerospace, and Goodrich Aerospace as well as others.

Sources

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-22-avionics.htm

http://www.rockwellcollins.com/ecat/br/Pro_Line_21.html http://www.honeywell.com/sites/aero/PrimusEpic.htm http://www.nsd.es.northropgrumman.com/Html/ITAS/

index_4.htm http://www.dsp.dla.mil/2004-DSP-conf/Condra-031604.ppt http://www.aerosonic.com/index.htm http://www.iccd-conference.org/proceedings/

1996/75540141.pdf#search=%22future%20avionics%20systems%22

http://www.honeywell.com/sites/aero/Flight_Controls_Guidance.htm

Questions?