V-22 mechanical diagnostic design approach

The requirements and diagnostic applications for the V-22 tiltrotor aircraft are used to demonstrate the unique requirements of mechanical system diagnostic design. The rationale for the approach selected is explored, and it is shown how the mechanical system diagnostic requirements affect the avionics architecture and performance requirements. It is concluded that, in light of the underdeveloped nature of mechanical diagnostics technology and the extended time required for a given mechanical diagnostic design to mature, future avionics system designs need architecture that is adaptable enough to accommodate the evolving mechanical diagnostics     

ROSA Rotorcraft Open Systems Avionics

Commercial standards adopted from the volume-driven electronics markets provide improved processing capacities over those widely used military standards and at reduced cost. Desired future capabilities and advanced functions, such as RPA, require the throughput, bandwidth, and memory provided by commercial processors and data buses. The primary issues needing resolution prior to implementation are related to operations in military rotorcraft environment, reliability, redundancy management, and fault and battle damage tolerance. In addition, some required network components presently do not exist in the preferred form factors. The ROSA project is providing effective laboratory demonstrations of COTS products and open systems specifications and standards to rotorcraft avionics. Preliminary cost estimates forecast large potential savings and create a compelling business case for follow-on research and transition to production systems. In addition, the project is developing a Rotorcraft Technical Architecture with the participation of many industry partners and will promote the resulting documentation as background materials for the JTA-A     

综合模块化航空电子核心系统技术研究

介绍了一种综合模块化航空电子核心系统.在系统应用需求及技术特征的分析基础上,提出了一种通用的开放式体系结构模型,并对系统的关键技术进行深入研究探讨,包括系统管理、网络通信、时间同步、容错策略等,最后给出系统设计方案的建议.系统具有可重构性、可重用性、可扩展性和健壮性,可满足先进飞机航空电子系统的应用要求,并为未来新型分布式综合模块化航空电子系统的研究与设计提供技术支持.     

Designing to MIL-STD-2165: Testability

The V-22 avionic hardware is the first to be designed under MIL-STD-2165 testability program requirements. This paper presents an overview of the avionics design-for-testability approach and lessons learned to date relative to the application of MIL-STD-2165. The paper will discuss incorporation of testability requirements up front in the avionics design which will drive the supportability philosophy at both the Organizational and Depot levels of maintenance. The paper will compare previous avionics hardware testability requirements versus those applied to the V-22 avionics and highlight areas of improvement. A discussion of testability design impacts on reduced level of testing (i.e. WRA/SRA/System) will be included. In addition, the paper discusses an innovative approach to meeting the user requirements for a man-portable forward deployed maintenance capability that forms the basis for a two level support scenario (Organizational and Depot). The innovation comes from the fact that the on-board Central Integrated Checkout system will provide data as well as fault isolation and will use this data as a mechanism to reduce the size and complexity of the stimulus and measurement hardware at either the Organizational or Depot level depending on the deployment requirements.     

开放式系统结构及其标准研究

介绍了开放式系统结构概念及航空电子系统采用开放式系统结构的理由及优势,通过介绍典型的开放式航空电子系统结构,着重讨论了开放式系统结构标准,并对我国如何开展这项工作提出了若干建议。     

基于分区代理机制的FC通信虚拟化方案设计

随着航电系统的发展,处理平台的集成度逐步提高,多核处理器集成多个应用将是未来应用的趋势。 但在使用多核处理器的系统中,由于多个处理器核并行运行,需要解决通信资源在多个处理器核之间的共享问 题。本文提出了一种基于分区代理机制的FC 通信虚拟化方案设计,可以实现多核架构下多应用、多分区共享 FC 网络接口设备进行通信。     

国外军用直升机航空电子的更新换代

介绍了美军军用直升机装备的发展趋势,并着重从航空电子系统结构、座舱设计、机载数据通信网络和机外通信数据链等方面探讨了国外军用直升机的最新进展,以期对未来军用直升机航电的发展方向有进一步的了解。     

Switched Ethernet testing for avionics applications

Switched Ethernet is being implemented as an avionics communication architecture. A commercial standard (ARINC-664) and an aircraft vendor-specific implementation known as avionics full duplex switched Ethernet (AFDX) have been developed that defines the topology and use of switched Ethernet in an avionics application. In avionics applications, the movement of data between devices must take place in a deterministic fashion and must be delivered reliably. All aircraft flight hardware must be tested to be sure that it will communicate information properly in the switched Ethernet network. The airframe manufacture must test the integrated network to verify that all flight hardware is communicating properly. Testing and maintenance testing is required to perform data communication level testing of switched Ethernet architectures for avionics applications to insure that all communication is deterministic and reliable. This paper provides an overview of a switched Ethernet avionics network and identifies the testing challenges associated with a switched Ethernet avionics application. A practical implementation performing the required tests is discussed.     

性能保证条件下航空电子高速交换机的加速方法

 以保证航空电子互连网络的确定性延迟和高带宽为目的,建立航空电子交换式以太网（AFDX）承载于波分复用（WDM）之上的架构,兼容AFDX的延迟确定性和WDM的带宽可扩性,满足航空电子互连网络对实时性和高带宽的要求。通过对实时通信中周期性数据帧的分析,提出光波聚合加速方法,对输入端到达的数据帧进行重新分配和整型,充分利用每条光波的带宽资源,减少交换使用的波长数。在性能保证条件（100%通过率下保证有界延迟）下,对使用光波聚合方法的交换机制进行了数学推导。最后通过计算机仿真,以网络延迟时间率和加速因子为性能衡量指标推证了该加速方法的优越性和可行性。     

Performability analysis of avionics system with multilayer HM/FM using stochastic Petri nets

The integrated modular avionics (IMA) architecture is an open standard in avionics industry, in which the number of functionalities implemented by software is greater than ever before. In the IMA architecture, the reliability of the avionics system is highly affected by the software applications. In order to enhance the fault tolerance feature with regard to software application failures, many industrial standards propose a layered health monitoring/fault management (HM/FM) scheme to periodically check the health status of software application processes and recover the malfunctioning software process whenever an error is located. In this paper, we make an analytical study of the HM/FM system for avionics application software. We use the stochastic Petri nets (SPN) to build a formal model of each component and present a method to combine the components together to form a complete system model with respect to three interlayer query strategies. We further investigate the effectiveness of these strategies in an illustrative system.     

Firewire in modern integrated military avionics

High performance communications, navigation, and identification (CNI) functions on modern military aircraft are increasingly required for mission readiness. The operation of simultaneous waveforms through an integrated avionics rack of shared resources becomes a test in moving data rapidly from one signal processing stage to the next. The IEEE 1394, or Firewire, is a commercial high bandwidth bus whose 64-bit addressing and maximum 400 Mbits/second throughput satisfies this demanding military avionics interconnect need. The challenge in applying this commercial product to integrated avionics is the requirement to seamlessly add message priority encoding. By having message priorities, the slower strategic communications links will not impair the performance of higher data rate tactical communications, thereby avoiding potentially life-threatening bottlenecks. The flight environment imposes additional challenges to ruggedize the cabling between integrated avionics racks and to utilize the full capabilities of the Firewire bus. A discussion of the physical, data link, network, and transport layers, as used in avionics applications will be done. Additionally, the versatility of 1394 in military avionics with its variable channel sizes, bandwidth on demand, hierarchical addressing, and upgrade to 800 and 1600 Mbps with a 64-bit wide data path, is emphasized. Finally, system maintenance advantages of 1394's hot pluggable features are discussed, with an eye toward cost reduction on the flight line and total operational time of the aircraft avionics systems     

Broadband integrated digital information exchange networks foravionics applications

This paper presents the design concept for Broadband Integrated Digital Avionics Information Exchange Networks (B-IDAIENs) for future aircraft applications. The use of B-IDAIENs can improve communication efficiency, flexibility, and capacity compared with using present avionics data buses. To implement B-IDAIENs the supporting techniques, such as wavelength-division multiplexing/wavelength-division multiple access and optical Benes network, are considered. Related optical components are also discussed. It is expected that the proposed B-IDAIENs can efficiently provide real-time video and voice communications, high/low speed data transmissions, parallel communications, and other time-critical services such as urgent signals from warning receivers     

光纤通道环形网络仿真环境的研究与实现

近年来光纤通道(FC)技术高速发展逐步进入到航空电子系统。面向机载实时通信需求,本文研究了FC网络五层体系结构,论述了环形拓扑结构的FC网络仿真环境的设计目标与方案,重点说明了FC环形网络仿真环境的硬件平台、驱动软件和仿真软件的设计。实际验证运行结果说明:该仿真环境能为机载FC环形互连网络的开发提供仿真与测试条件。     

新一代航空电子总线系统结构研究

航空电子总线系统结构是航空电子系统的神经中枢,直接决定着航空电子综合化程度的高低和性能的优劣。本文通过对航空电子数据总线结构现状和发展要求的分析,提出了新一代航空电子总线系统的设计原则和体系结构,并论述了其核心技术综合模块化航空电子系统的通用模块和综合核心处理机的组成。     

基于CRC校验的航电网络传输通道安全性分析

完整性概率是民用飞机与系统安全性的评价指标之一.循环冗余校验(CRC)是航空电子系统通信网络中广泛应用的完整性设计措施.针对缺乏CRC校验定量安全性分析的现状,基于标准CRC校验的性能,研究了业务数据在航空电子系统通信网络传输过程中出现错误且被CRC漏检的概率.结合案例分析了 CRC校验对航电网络传输通道完整性需求的影...     

分级式航空电子综合化仿真系统研究

介绍一个分级式航空电子综合化仿真系统。该系统以航空电子综合化工程中一个分系统为仿真目标,由两层双余度1553B总线和MBI(multiplex bus interface)将AVS(Avionics simulator)、SSCU(subsystem control unit)、若干个EQS(equipment simulator)以及部分真实设备连成的三级分布式计算机系统。一个面向实时控制的分布式操作系统和相应的仿真软件分布在三级仿真器中;其中,分布式操作系统实现两级总线的衔接、通信控制、并行多任务管理、错误检测、故障处理和实时内存数据库管理,仿真软件模拟航空电子上层环境、操作员控制与显示、分系统各设备数据产生与接收数据处理以及信息处理应用任务。系统研制成功为工程化实现打下了技术基础并提供了一个实验环境。     

嵌入式实时操作系统中的安全性考虑

在综合化航空电子系统中,嵌入式实时操作系统已被广泛采用,而操作系统保证应用软件的安全性,则是目前要解决的首要问题。对照国内外在高安全性、强实时系统上的先进技术和先进经验,本文着重讨论了嵌入式实时操作系统中解决数据安全性的几点考虑,主要集中介绍了软件的分层防御体系、分区管理和信息安全管理技术、分区间通讯的“虚通道”技术等,以确保综合化航电系统的信息及数据安全的机密性和完整性,达到主动防御的能力。     

航空电子通信系统关键技术问题的浅析

现代航空电子综合化技术的发展大大提高了军用飞机的性能 ,信息综合化技术中最重要的技术之一就是航空电子通信技术。基于MIL -STD— 15 5 3B总线 ,本文分析了航空电子通信系统设计中若干关键性问题的解决途径。最后着重说明了某机载ACT飞控系统 15 5 3B总线通信网络的实现技术。     

基于WDM网络的航空电子网络研究

分析了WDM网络对未来航空电子网络的适应性,重点研究了航电WDM网络的网络特性和网络结构设计等关键技术,还分析了基于ShuffieNet型规则虚拓扑的航电网络的实时性能,最后搭建了试验平台并验证了该网络的高带宽、低延迟的网络性能。     

多窗口传输协议及其在航空电子系统大数据传输中的应用

随着航空电子系统模块化技术的发展,系统内大数据传输的需求越来越明显,现有的几种大数据传输方式或需要更改现存系统架构,或需要系统具有特定功能支持,难以在不同的航空电子系统中进行广泛应用。为解决这一问题,本文提出一种可在系统应用层中实现的多窗口传输协议及其实现方法。该协议使用额外的资源同时进行多窗口信息传输,保证了在机载网络不稳定环境下传输的速率和稳定性,满足系统大数据传输的需求。而且方法在应用层实现,避免了对系统现有硬件和软件架构的更改,适用范围较广。