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Building a Flight Control System for a Modelled Aircraft

Building a Flight Control System for a Modelled Aircraft
Building a Flight Control System for a Modelled Aircraft
We modelled an aircraft based on the Airbus A320 and constructed a synthesisable flight control system. The novel feature was the use of C and VHDL, Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Design Language, to allow the flight control system to reside in a Field Programmable Gate Array in a model aircraft or an Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle. The simulator models axial, normal, transverse, pitch, roll and yaw movements. The flight control system has automatic manoeuvre envelope protection and constrained linear and angular accelerations. A graphical front end written in Java makes the flight control system very usable for aircraft engineers.
Garratt, Paul William
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Rushton, Andrew
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Garratt, Paul William
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Rushton, Andrew
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Yilmaz, Esat
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Garratt, Paul William, Rushton, Andrew and Yilmaz, Esat (2004) Building a Flight Control System for a Modelled Aircraft. MS02004 International Conference on Modeling And Simulation, Minsk.

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We modelled an aircraft based on the Airbus A320 and constructed a synthesisable flight control system. The novel feature was the use of C and VHDL, Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Design Language, to allow the flight control system to reside in a Field Programmable Gate Array in a model aircraft or an Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle. The simulator models axial, normal, transverse, pitch, roll and yaw movements. The flight control system has automatic manoeuvre envelope protection and constrained linear and angular accelerations. A graphical front end written in Java makes the flight control system very usable for aircraft engineers.

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Published date: 2004
Additional Information: Event Dates: April 2004
Venue - Dates: MS02004 International Conference on Modeling And Simulation, Minsk, 2004-04-01
Organisations: Electronic & Software Systems

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Local EPrints ID: 259077
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/259077
PURE UUID: ce38fdbb-db84-42e4-8178-7d14205b797e

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Date deposited: 02 Mar 2005
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 06:18

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Author: Paul William Garratt
Author: Andrew Rushton
Author: Esat Yilmaz

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