A real-time simulation facility built at NASA's Langley Research Center to support digital guidance and control research and development activities is examined. The unit has recently been used to develop autoland systems for VTOL. The paper describes the autoland experiment and the flight environment, the simulation facility hardware and software, and presents typical simulation data to illustrate the type of data analysis carried out during software development. Finally, flight data for a later version of the autoland system are presented to demonstrate the simulation's capability to predict overall system behavior.
A real-time simulation facility for advanced digital guidance and control system research
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Digital Avionics Systems Conference ; 1979 ; Fort Worth, TX
1979-11-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
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