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A Study on Qualification Procedures of Flight Control Software on Military Aircraft (군용항공기 비행제어 소프트웨어 품질인증 절차에 관한 연구)

  • Heo, Jin-Goo
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.433-441
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: This study investigates software qualification procedures based on the FA-50 flight control software to satisfy high reliability and flight safety. Methods: We studied software qualification categories, standard/specification and developed country case. We proposed procedure to satisfy not only flight safety but also international standard. Results: The proposed software qualification procedure satisfied flight safety and airworthiness based on the testing result of the FA-50 flight control software. Conclusion: This paper showed an appropriate qualification procedures of the flight control software in domestic circumstance through the FA-50 flight control software qualification.

A Study on the Design of Software Switching Mechanism for Develops the Flight Control Law (제어법칙 개발을 위한 소프트웨어 전환장치 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Chong-Sup;Cho, In-Je;Ahn, Jong-Min;Shin, Ji-Hwan;Park, Sang-Seon
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.12 no.11
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    • pp.1130-1137
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    • 2006
  • Relaxed Static Stability(RSS) concept has been applied to improve aerodynamic performance of modern version supersonic jet fighter aircraft. Therefore, the flight control systems are necessary to stabilizes the unstable aircraft and provides adequate handling qualities. The initial production flight control system are verified by flight test and it's always an elements of danger because of flight-critical nature of control law function and design error due to model base design method. These critical issues impact to flight safety, and it could be lead to a loss of aircraft and pilot's life. Therefore, development of an easily modifiable RFCS(Research Flight Control System) capable of reverting to a PFCS(Primary Flight Control System) of reliable control law must be developed to guarantee the flight safety. This paper addresses the concept of SSWM(Software Switching Mechanism) using the fader logic such as TFS(Transient Free Switch) based on T-50 flight control law. The result of the analysis based on non-real time simulation in-house software using SSWM reveals that the flight control system are switching between two computers without any problem.

Development of Verification Environment for Flight Safety Critical Software using NEXUS (NEXUS를 이용한 비행안전 필수 소프트웨어 검증환경 개발)

  • Yoon, Hyung-Sik;Han, Jong-Pyo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.6
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    • pp.548-554
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    • 2012
  • Verification and validation of operational software of the flight control computer, which is flight safety critical, is very important to prove correctness and faultness of the software. To verify the real-time softare requirement on operational software of flight control computer, real-time software internal parameter and variable monitoring technics on hardware-in-the-loop environment, similar to on-flight environment, is required. This paper describes flight safety critical software validation and verificiation environment using standard debugging interface, NEXUS 5001.

FLIGHT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE KODSAT

  • Choi Eun-Jung;Park Suk-June;Kang Suk-Joo;Seo Min-Suk;Chae Jang-Soo;Oh Tae-Sik
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2004.10b
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    • pp.364-367
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents the flight software of KoDSat (KSLV-l Demonstration Satellite) which performs demonstrating the KSLV-l (Korea Space Launch Vehicle-l)'s satellite launch capability. The KoDSat Flight Software executes in a single-processor, multi-function flight computer on the spacecraft, the OBC (On Board Computer). The flight software running on the single processor is responsible for all real-time processing associated with: processor startup and hardware initialization, task scheduling, RS422 handling function, command and data handling including uplink command and down-link telemetry, attitude determination and control, battery state of charge monitoring and control, thermal control processing.

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BITSE Ground Software

  • Baek, Ji-Hye;Park, Jongyeob;Choi, Seonghwan;Kim, Jihun;Yang, Heesu;Kim, Yeon-Han;Swinski, Joseph-Paul A.;Newmark, Jeffrey S.;Gopalswamy, Nat.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.58.1-58.1
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    • 2019
  • We have developed Ground Software (GSW) of BITSE. The ground software includes mission operation software, data visualization software and data processing software. Mission operation software is implemented using COSMOS. COSMOS is a command and control system providing commanding, scripting and data visualization capabilities for embedded systems. Mission operation software send commands to flight software and control coronagraph. It displays every telemetry packets and provides realtime graphing of telemetry data. Data visualization software is used to display and analyze science image data in real time. It is graphical user interface (GUI) and has various functions such as directory listing, image display, and intensity profile. The data visualization software shows also image information which is FITS header, pixel resolution, and histogram. It helps users to confirm alignment and exposure time during the mission. Data processing software creates 4-channel polarization data from raw data.

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States and Modes Analysis for Flight Control of Smart UAV (스마트 무인기 비행제어 상태/모드 분석)

  • Oh, Soo Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2005
  • This paper describes the results of applying States and Modes Analysis, one of the requirements analysis techniques, to the development requirements of flight control software for Smart UAV. State/mode table enabled us to investigate various operation and design concepts, and as a result essential requirements for flight control software were established without omitting necessary requirements. Through the use of scenario-specific state transition diagrams, dynamic behaviours and control/response interfaces between each state and mode could been clearly identified, which made it possible to establish requirements related to dynamic behaviours of states and modes which are essential to the design of flight control software.

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A Study on the Conversion Time to Minimize of Transient Response during Inter-Conversion between Control Laws (제어법칙 간 상호 전환 시 과도응답 최소화를 위한 전환시간에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Chongsup
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.12-18
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    • 2015
  • The inter-conversion between different control laws in flight has a lot of risk. The SWM(Switching Mechanism) including logic and stand-by mode is designed to analyze the transient response of aircraft during inter-conversion between different control laws, based on the in-house software for non-real-time and real-time simulation. The SWM applies the fader logic of TFS(Transient Free Switch) to minimize the transient response of an aircraft during the inter-conversion, and applies the reset '0' type of the stand-by mode to prevent surface saturation due to integrator effect in the disengaged flight control law. The transition time is also important to minimize the objectionable transient response in the inter-conversion, as well as the transition control law design. This paper addresses the results of non-real-time simulation for the characteristics of transient response to different transition time to select the adequate transient time, and the real-time pilot evaluation, using SSWM(Software Switching Mechanism) and HSWM(Hardware Switching Mechanism), which is met for Level 1 flying qualities and assures safety of flight.

Design of Flight Software for Heater Control in LEO Satellites (저궤도 관측위성의 히터제어를 위한 위성비행소프트웨어 설계)

  • Lee, Jae-Seung;Shin, Hyun-Kyu;Choi, Jong-Wook;Cheon, Yee-Jin
    • Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.141-148
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    • 2011
  • LEO satellites have many heaters for thermal control, such as bus module heaters, payload heaters and battery internal heaters. Some of these heaters are controlled by thermisters, and others can be controlled by flight software. These heaters are divided into various types of group according to the location, telemetry variables, flight software logic, power distribution, etc. Thus, it is difficult to find out which heaters are included in a certain group and modify heater control logic for a new/other software developers. This document describes about the general/special control logic for satellite heaters and groups/arrays for heaters.

Flight Control System Design and Verification Process (비행제어시스템 설계 및 검증 절차)

  • Kim, Chong-Sup
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.14 no.8
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    • pp.824-836
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    • 2008
  • Relaxed static stability(RSS) concept has been applied to improve aerodynamic performance of modern version supersonic jet fighter aircraft. Therefore, flight control systems are necessary to stabilize an unstable aircraft, and provides adequate handling qualities and achieve performance enhancements. Standard FCSDVP (Flight Control System Design and Verification Process) is provided to reduce development period of the flight control system. In addition, if this process is employed in developing flight control system, it reduces the trial and error for development and verification of flight control system. This paper addresses the flight control system design and verification process for the RSS aircraft utilizing design goal based on military specifications, linear and nonlinear system design and verification based on universal software, handling quality test based on HILS(Hardware In-the-Loop Simulator) environment, and ground and flight test results to verify aircraft dynamic flight responses.

Derivation and Validation of Aerodynamic Parameters of Small Airplanes Using Design Software and Subjective Tests (설계용 S/W를 활용한 소형비행기의 비행특성 매개변수 추출과 주관적 시험평가방식에 관한 연구)

  • 이숙경;공지영;최유환;윤석준
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.142-147
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    • 2004
  • It is very difficult to acquire high-fidelity flight test data for small airplanes such as typical unmanned aerial vehicles because MEMS-type small sensors used in the tests do not present reliable data in general. Besides, it is not practical to conduct expensive flight tests for low-cost small airplanes in order to simulate their flight characteristics. A practical approach to obtain acceptable flight data, including stability and control derivatives and data of weight and balance, is proposed in this study. Aircraft design software such as Darcorp's AAA is used to generate aerodynamic data for small airplanes, and moments of inertia are calculated using CATIA, structural design software. These flight data from simulation software are evaluated subjectively and tailored using simulation flight by experienced pilots, based on the certified procedures in FAA AC 120-45A and 40B, which are used for manned airplane simulators.

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