Title :
Sensor management
Author :
Adrian, Richard A.
Author_Institution :
Hughes Aircraft Co. Radar Syst., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
In the next century, tactical air warfare will demand that fighter aircraft fly more sorties per day from austere or remote locations around the world with little or no logistics or maintenance support. To meet this demand, avionics must have greater functionality, adaptability, reliability and availability. The Air Force Pave PACE program, which began in 1990, is defining and developing the next generation avionics architecture for post-2000 aircraft. A key component of the software architecture is the “sensor manager”, the software function which directs the operation of the Pave PACE integrated sensor suite. We look at the role of the integrated sensor manager in the Pave PACE avionics architecture, focusing on the operational issues which influence its design. Also a hierarchical sensor manager design is described which addresses these issues
Keywords :
aerospace computer control; aerospace computing; aircraft instrumentation; computer architecture; distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; hierarchical systems; intelligent control; military computing; military systems; reliability; sensor fusion; Air Force Pave PACE program; Pave PACE integrated sensor; adaptability; avionics architecture; fighter aircraft; hierarchical sensor manager; inference engine; integrated sensor manager; post-2000 aircraft; reliability; remote locations; software architecture; tactical air warfare; Aerospace electronics; Automatic control; Availability; Computer architecture; Costs; Maintenance; Military aircraft; Sensor fusion; Sensor systems; Weapons;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1993. 12th DASC., AIAA/IEEE
Conference_Location :
Fort Worth, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1343-7
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.1993.283575
