DocumentCode :
1407118
Title :
An advanced flight control and navigation system implementation for tactical helicopters
Author :
Bye, C.T. ; Bakken, Jeffrey T.
Author_Institution :
Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA
Volume :
3
Issue :
7
fYear :
1988
fDate :
7/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage :
27
Lastpage :
33
Abstract :
US Army helicopters that will allow single-crewmember operability in tactical environments require a high degree of automation. A tightly integrated flight control and navigation system has been studied. An architecture is discussed which meets anticipated flight control and navigation requirements, at an acceptable weight, using techniques of functional and physical integration. The architecture maximizes the sharing of sensor and computational resources in a flight critical environment and uses modular equipment packaging, dual fault-tolerant tetrad ring-laser-gyro inertial measurement units, and triplex self-checking processor pair-based flight critical processing channels.<>
Keywords :
aerospace computer control; aerospace computing; aircraft instrumentation; computerised instrumentation; computerised navigation; gyroscopes; helicopters; inertial navigation; measurement by laser beam; military equipment; modules; packaging; US Army; aerospace computer control; architecture; automation; computational resources; dual fault-tolerant tetrad ring-laser-gyro inertial measurement units; flight control; functional and physical integration; military equipment; modular equipment packaging; navigation; operability; pair-based flight critical processing channels; sensor; sharing; tactical environments; tactical helicopters; triplex self-checking processor; weight; Aerospace control; Aerospace electronics; Aerospace engineering; Aircraft navigation; Automation; Computer architecture; Engineering management; Helicopters; Redundancy; Vehicles;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0885-8985
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/62.884
Filename :
884
Link To Document :
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