Title :
Tracking Performance of Distributed Recoverable Flight Control Systems Subject to High Intensity Radiated Fields
Author :
Rui Wang ; Gray, W. Steven ; Gonzalez, Oscar R. ; Chavez-Fuentes, Jorge R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA, USA
Abstract :
Theoretical tools are presented to analyze the relationship between the design choices for a class of NASA-inspired fault-tolerant, reconfigurable computer architectures and the tracking performance degradation of a digital flight control system implemented on such a platform while operating in a high-intensity radiated field (HIRF) environment. A HIRF experiment was conducted at the NASA Langley Research Center to validate the theory for a distributed Boeing 747 flight control system subject to HIRF upsets.
Keywords :
aerospace control; aircraft computers; computer architecture; control engineering computing; fault tolerance; reconfigurable architectures; target tracking; HIRF environment; NASA Langley Research Center; NASA-inspired fault-tolerant; digital flight control system; distributed Boeing 747 flight control system; distributed recoverable flight control systems; high intensity radiated fields; reconfigurable computer architectures; tracking performance degradation; Aerospace control; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Distributed computing; Joints; Markov processes; Switches;
Journal_Title :
Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAES.2013.6404118
