International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The GPS/INS equipment is used at the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) to collect
time space position information (TSPI) during testing. The GPS-based test
instrumentation is lagging behind available commercial technologies. Advancing
technologies for test use requires investigation of affordable commercial equipment. To
enable technology insertion for state of the art testing, there is a need for more robust,
flexible, reliable, modular, affordable low cost TSPI systems capable of operating in all
flight environments. Modular (plug-and-play) hardware and software, quick and easy to
re-configure, are required for supporting various test platforms from fighter aircraft to
cargo size aircraft. Flight testing dynamics are such that, GPS-only systems tend to lose
data during critical maneuvers. To minimize this data loss, inertial measurement systems
coupled with GPS sensors are used in most sophisticated range instrumentation packages.
However, these packages have required fairly expensive inertial units, are usually very
large and not very flexible in terms of quick and easy reconfiguration to meet the unique
needs of AFFTC’s test customers. WADDAN SYSTEMS has begun to address this
problem with a modular design concept, which incorporates their high-performance
navigation quality inertial measurement unit, but with costs comparative to that of lower-end
performance inertial units. This paper describes WADDAN’s concept and the
components that make up MAGI; and addresses some of the preliminary testing and near-term
proposed activities. In general, the system will provide GPS, inertial and discrete
MIL-STD 1553, RS-232/422 and video data from the participant. The MAGI will be
structured around the Compact personal computer interface (PCI) backplane bus with on-board
recording and processing and will include real-time command and control through
a UHF data link.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607342 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Singh, Mahendra, McNamee, Stuart, Khosrowabadi, Allen |
| Contributors | WADDAN SYSTEMS, 412TW/TSD, Tybrin Corporation |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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