International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1992 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / Today’s telemetry preprocessing systems are often required to create and process new telemetry parameters by combining multiple actual parameters in a telemetry data stream. The newly created parameters are commonly referred to as “derived parameters” and are often required for analysis in real time at relatively high speeds. Derived parameters are created through algebraic or logical combinations of multiple parameters distributed throughout the telemetry data frame. Creation and processing of derived parameters is frequently performed in telemetry system preprocessors, which are much more efficient at processing time division multiplex data streams than general purpose processors. Providing telemetry system users with a “user friendly” method for creating and installing newly derived parameter functions has been a subject of considerable discussion. Successful implementation of derived parameter processing has typically required the telemetry system user to be knowledgeable of the telemetry preprocessor architecture and to possess software programming skills. An innovative technique which requires no programming language skills is presented in this paper. Programmers or non-programmers may use the technique to easily define derived parameter calculations. Both single derived parameters and multiple derived parameters may be calculated in the preprocessor at high throughput rates.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1992 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / Chart recorders currently in use on telemetry ranges are connected to telemetry processors via a series of Digital to Analog Converters (DAC) systems. A new modular interface system receives data directly from the processor broadcast bus and distributes them to up to ten digital chart recorders. This interface is programmed from a computer to assign individual tags to each one of the display channels. This system eliminates DAC's and patch panels. It simplifies display system operation, speeds up transition from test to test and reduces maintenance costs.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 29-November 02, 1990 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Rapid technology growth in the aerospace industry continues to manifest in increasingly complex weapons systems and system driven weapons systems platforms which must be supported in the flight test environment. This growth in complexity often surpasses the capabilities of many ground based real-time and post-flight processing and display systems, leaving these systems perpetually behind the power curve when compared to data/information processing, presentation and distribution requirements set forth by today’s flight test engineering community. Many flight test programs are accepting less than optimal results from these systems, therefore, the amount of information presently obtained (per flight hour) limits the results acquired during a test program, creating a more costly test and evaluation budget. As an integral participant in the development and testing of high technology aircraft and weapons systems, the U.S. Air Force Flight Test Center’s (AFFTC) Advanced Data Acquisition and Processing Systems (ADAPS) development is bridging the gap between requirements and capability by distributing current system architectures to provide incremental performance upgrades in specific areas of need in lieu of entire system replacements. This paper will discuss the current real-time processing, distribution and display capability that exists at the AFFTC and the planned phased upgrade of this tightly coupled system to a more flexible and extensible distributed architecture that will be increasingly responsive to the dynamic nature of test and evaluation of modern weapons systems and weapons systems platforms.