Flight code validation simulator

Brent A. Sims

doi:10.1117/12.241127

24 May 1996 Flight code validation simulator

Brent A. Sims

Proceedings Volume 2741, Technologies for Synthetic Environments: Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.241127
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1996, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

An End-To-End Simulation capability for software development and validation of missile flight software on the actual embedded computer has been developed utilizing a 486 PC, i860 DSP coprocessor, embedded flight computer and custom dual port memory interface hardware. This system allows real-time interrupt driven embedded flight software development and checkout. The flight software runs in a Sandia Digital Airborne Computer and reads and writes actual hardware sensor locations in which Inertial Measurement Unit data resides. The simulator provides six degree of freedom real-time dynamic simulation, accurate real-time discrete sensor data and acts on commands and discretes from the flight computer. This system was utilized in the development and validation of the successful premier flight of the Digital Miniature Attitude Reference System in January of 1995 at the White Sands Missile Range on a two stage attitude controlled sounding rocket.

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Brent A. Sims "Flight code validation simulator", Proc. SPIE 2741, Technologies for Synthetic Environments: Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing, (24 May 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.241127

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