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Landry, Michael. "MIL-STD-1553 Data Acquisition System." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/614499.
Full textThe Range Commanders Council recently added a chapter to IRIG 106-86 which describes a standard for acquisition of MIL-STD-1553 traffic flow. A system has been developed which monitors bus traffic using the format described in the standard for encoding. In addition to bus data, PCM analog channels can be inserted into the telemetry steam. Due to the high bandwidth of the telemetry stream, real-time ground processing of the 1553 data is difficult. Therefore, a limited number of selective measurements taken from the bus traffic are available at fixed positions in the telemetry format for real-time monitoring of critical parameters. A discussion of hardware, software, encoding, and testing will be presented.
Malone, Erle W., and Phillip Breedlove. "MIL-STD-1553 DATA BUS/PCM MULTIPLEXER SYSTEM." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613443.
Full textA telemetry system which integrates MIL-STD-1553 bus data, dual-simplex bus data, vehicle performance data, and environmental sensor data multiplexing involves many interfacing constraints. The engineering design considerations and hardware constraints required to implement this system are presented in this paper.
Chavez, Tomas, and Susan C. Sutherland. "EMBEDDED MIL-STD 1553 DATA FROM A SYSTEM PERSPECTIVE." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613790.
Full textThe recently delivered Telemetry Data Handling System (TDHS) was designed to support the current and future needs of a multi-purpose realtime range system at White Sands Missile Range. The system provides for data acquisition, processing, and archival of PCM, PAM, and FM data. The addition of support for MIL-STD 1553 data input as presented in the SRAM II data format is currently in process by Loral Data Systems. The SRAM II format includes MIL-STD 1553 messages embedded in a traditional PCM mutiplex. These embedded 1553 messages must be extracted and processed in addition to standard processing of the PCM data. This paper discusses a general purpose solution to the handling of embedded 1553 data including: " Configuring the system components " Extracting the embedded messages " Processing the MIL-STD 1553 data " Testing the system
Penharlow, David. "DATA ACQUISITION TECHNIQUES USED FOR MIL-STD-1553 DATA." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/615568.
Full textThis paper will address various applications and methods used for the acquisition, recording, and telemetering of data from the MIL-STD-1553 avionic multiplexer data bus installations in aircraft, missiles, and other vehicles. Discussions of the problems encountered and hardware utilized in current applications are reviewed. The innovative techniques used to optimize system performance, and future trends for program requirements are also discussed.
Lam, Bernard O. Thompson Michael Wayne Duren Russell Walker. "Implementation of lossless compression algorithms for the MIL-STD-1553." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5294.
Full textWeston, Bron O. Duren Russell Walker Thompson Michael Wayne. "Data compression application to the MIL-STD 1553 avionics data bus." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/2882.
Full textFletcher, T. R. "A MIL-STD-1553 Multiplex Data Bus Record-All Small Data Acquisition System." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/611964.
Full textMIL-STD-1553 multiplex data buses are commonly used to link complex software-controlled systems in modern aircraft. The software in these aircraft is routinely updated; each update requires flight testing. Also, sophisticated weapons and electronic warfare systems which are integrated into operationally-ready aircraft must be routinely evaluated. The simplest way to perform the required evaluation is to record all the data from the multiplex data buses during an operational flight; these data can then be replayed and examined after the flight. Traditionally, some operational systems had to be disabled or removed from an aircraft to allow installation of a data acquisition system. This paper discusses a MILSTD- 1553 multiplex bus Record-All Small Data Acquisition System (RASDAS) installed in a McDonnell Douglas CF-188 fighter aircraft to record all data from two 1553 multiplex data buses without displacing any operational equipment. The specific requirements and constraints associated with evaluating the integrated systems of a CF-188 aircraft are examined; further, RASDAS implementation in this aircraft type is discussed from planning to flight evaluation.
Devlin, Steve. "Decommutation of Mil-Std 1553B Data from EA6B or IRIG Telemetry Formats." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/615237.
Full textWith the acceptance of Mil-Std-1553B by vehicle and weapons industries a wealth of new information is available for vehicle testing. In the past, selected data was extracted and included in a standard PCM telemetry stream. But only the selected data was made available. In EA6B and in the proposed IRIG Standard, multiple Mil-Std-1553B data busses are combined with identifying control bits in a single PCM telemetry stream. All of the information traveling each bus is available to the ground station. These formats share a number of features. One is that for each Bus the Mil-Std-1553B word appears in the same order in the telemetry stream. Another is that individual data words do not depend on their position in the telemetry stream for identification, but they do depend on the control information associated with the current message to give meaning to the data words. An efficient approach is outlined for identifying, selecting and routing individual measurements, messages, and/or all Mil-Std-1553B bus information to processes and I/O devices in a data flow environment.
Payne, David, and Mike O'Brien. "A System Conforming to the New IRIG Standard for Processing MIL-STD-1553 Data." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/615058.
Full textThe typical aircraft development program of the 1990's will use multiple airborne MIL-STD-1553 Data Busses to provide control of the avionics subsystems. These programs have created a need to process data from these busses in a standard format. This format is proposed for Chapter 8 of the IRIG-106 document. This paper describes EMR's MIL-STD-1553 PROCESSING SYSTEM to acquire and process data in accordance with this new standard. This fully integrated and already available system consists of two basic elements: * An All-Bus Instrumentation System(ABIS). * A Ground Processing Station (GPS). The ABIS monitors the MIL-STD-1553 airborne communications busses, and formats all data in a standard IRIG serial PCM stream suitable for on-board recording and/or real-time transmission on a radio link. Each ABIS will handle all data from one to eight busses. The GPS provides both real-time display and post-flight processing of data captured by the ABIS.
Blott, Michaela. "FIREWIRE: THE NEW 1553?" International Foundation for Telemetering, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/605779.
Full textMIL-STD-1553 has served the flight community well. However, in recent years several new high-speed bus standards have emerged that outperform 1553 in various respects such as data throughput and increased address space. During this time, mission requirements - including video and audio - have become more data intensive. Although some of these busses were not initially designed for the avionics industry (such as Ethernet, FireWire, and FibreChannel), they are potentially of interest as high-speed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions for both set-up and data acquisition. These busses offer not only improved overall system performance, in terms of aggregate sampling rates, but also simplify existing data acquisition system architectures. They require fewer high-bandwidth links which can serve for both set-up and data. This paper examines some of these issues, focusing in particular on IEEE1394, better known as FireWire.
Carter, Bruce, and Troy Scoughton. "Problems Associated with Realtime Analysis of a Remotely Telemetered, Monitored MIL-STD-1553 Data Streams." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/614688.
Full textThe unique set of problems encountered when analyzing MILSTD- 1553 Bus data acquired in realtime from a remote source are indentified and discussed and one possible approach to their solution is offered. Such problems are associated with realtime test range support using monitored (eavesdropped) 1553 bus data telemetered in its natural (asynchronous) form rather than stuffed into a traditional synchronous PCM frame map. Attached devices acting as Bus Controllers (BC) or Remote Terminals (RT) utilize a handshaking command/response protocol to communicate packets (messages) over associated 1553 bus(es). Thus attached devices are able to decode/respond to messages occurring in any of ten possible formats because they participate in handshaking. Analysis must be preceeded by data stream decoding. Monitoring (eavesdropping) is not interactive and thus eliminates handshakes as external points of reference. This forces the process of decoding a monitored data stream to rely on intrinsic (data stream content) information coupled with any externally supplied configuration information. Remote monitoring must deal with the problem of re-acquisition after drop-out being asynchronous with message occurance, thus making the decoding process assume an unknown state at both start-up and re-acquisition. The proposed solution attempts to define a minimum system made up of the component for intrinsic analysis and coupled with external configuration information necessary to accurately decode monitored 1553 data in realtime.
Salley, Thomas, and Steven E. Thorssell. "AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR ACQUIRING AVIONIC BUS DATA IN A CLASS I PCM TELEMETRY SYSTEM." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613141.
Full textIRIG 106-86 Chapter 8 describes the standard for acquisition of MIL-STD-1553 traffic flow. All incoming words (command, status, or data) are transmitted and fill words are used to maintain continuous data output. If all incoming words are not needed, or if other data such as sampled analog data from transducers are also to be transmitted, then a different approach is warranted. Selected data from the avionics bus can be placed into predefined PCM words, eliminating the transmission of useless data, and optimizing the bandwidth available to a Class I telemetry system. The engineering considerations and constraints for avionics bus data acquisition and analysis will be explored in this paper.
Reinsmith, Lee V. "POST-FLIGHT 1553 MESSAGE REDUCTION AND PROCESSING SYSTEM." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608572.
Full textThis paper describes the application software used in the Message Processing System at the Air Force Development Test Center (AFDTC), Eglin AFB. The focus is on the Alpha AXP application software designed and developed to log, process, and reformat IRIG Chapter 8 1553 data. The main data reduction and editing capabilities of the processing phase are explained: message output selection, message output sampling, message translation, error identification, and IRIG Chapter 8 time editing. The design of and methods used to produce the output files, the BBNProbe STD file, and the 1553 message summary report are described. This software’s flexibility and comprehensiveness in processing, reducing, and re-formatting 1553 message data will enable AFDTC to satisfy current and future post-mission processing requirements.
Peart, David E., and Jim Talbert. "CONVERTING ASYNCHRONOUS DATA INTO A STANDARD IRIG TELEMETRY FORMAT." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/609679.
Full textIn recent years we have seen an increase in the use of MIL-STD-1553 buses and other asynchronous data sources used in new missile and launcher designs. The application of multiplexed asynchronous buses in missiles and launchers is very common today. With increasing application of asynchronous data sources into very complex systems the need to acquire, analyze, and present one hundred percent of the bus traffic in real time or near real time has become especially important during testing and diagnostic operations. This paper discusses ways of converting asynchronous data, including MIL-STD-1553, into a telemetry format that is suitable for encryption, telemetering, recording, and presenting with Inter Range Instrumentation Group (IRIG) compatible off-the-shelf hardware. The importance of these designs is to provide the capability to conserve data bandwidth and to maximize the use of existing hardware. In addition, this paper will discuss a unique decode and time tagging design that conserves data storage when compared to the methods in IRIG Standard 106-96 and still maintains a very accurate time tag.
Rarick, Michael J., and Ben-z. Lawrence. "Digitally Recorded Data Reduction On a PC Using CAPS 2.0." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/611443.
Full textThe Common Airborne Processing System (CAPS) provides a general purpose data reduction capability for digitally recorded data on a PC. PCM or MIL-STD-1553 data can be imported from a variety of sources into the CAPS standard file format. Parameter dictionaries describing raw data structures and output product descriptions describing the desired outputs can be created and edited from within CAPS. All of this functionality is performed on an personal computer within the framework of the graphical user interface provided by Microsoft Windows. CAPS has become the standard for digitally recorded data reduction on a PC at Eglin AFB and many other sites worldwide. New features, such as real-time inputs and graphical outputs, are being added to CAPS to make it an even more productive data reduction tool.
Rarick, Michael J., and Ben-z. Lawrence. "Digitally Recorded Data Reduction on a PC Using CAPS." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/611610.
Full textThe Common Airborne Processing System (CAPS) provides a general purpose data reduction capability for digitally recorded telemetry data on a cost-efficient platform. Telemetry data can be imported from a variety of formats into the CAPS standard file format. Parameter dictionaries describing raw data structures and output product descriptions describing the desired outputs can be created and edited from within CAPS. All of this functionality is performed on an IBM compatible personal computer within the framework of the graphical user interface provided by Microsoft Windows.
Luke, Brian L. "Design of a microelectronic controller with a MIL-STD-1553 bus interface for the tactile situation awareness system." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA354463.
Full textThesis advisor(s): Douglas J. Fouts. "September 1998." Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158). Also available online.
Berdugo, Albert, and William G. Ricker. "A NEW 1553 ALL-BUS INSTRUMENTATION MONITOR." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613782.
Full textIncreased data throughput demands in military and avionics systems has led to the development of an advanced, All-Bus MIL-STD-1553 Instrumentation Monitor. This paper discusses an airborne unit which acquires the information from up to 8 dual-redundant buses, and formats the data for telemetry, recording or real-time analysis according to the requirements of IRIG-106-86, Chapter 8. The ALBUS-1553 acquires all or selected 1553 messages which are formatted into IRIG-compatible serial data stream outputs. Data is time tagged to microsecond resolution. The unit selectively transmits entire or partial 1553 messages under program control. This results in reduced transmission bandwidth if prior knowledge of 1553 traffic is known. The ALBUS also encodes analog voice inputs, discrete userword inputs and multiplexed analog (overhead) inputs. The unit is provided in a ruggedized airborne housing utilizing standard ATR packaging,
Berdugo, Albert, and Louis Natale. "IRIG-106 CHAPTER 10 RECORDER WITH BUILT-IN DATA FILTERING MECHANISM." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604523.
Full textSixteen years ago, RCC added Chapter 8 to the IRIG-106 standard for the acquisition of 100% MIL-STD-1553 data from up to eight buses for recording and/or transmission. In the past 5 years, the RCC recording committee added Chapter 10 to the IRIG-106 standard for acquisition of 100% data from PCM, MIL-STD-1553 busses, Video, ARINC-429, Ethernet, IEEE-1394, and others. IRIG-106 Chapter 10 recorder suppliers have further developed customer-specific interfaces to meet additional customer needs. These needs have included unique radar and avionic bus interfaces such as F-16 Fibre Channel, F-35 Fibre Channel, F-22 FOTR, and others. IRIG-106 Chapter 8 and Chapter 10 have provided major challenges to the user community when the acquired avionics bus data included data that must be filtered and never leave the test platform via TM or recording media. The preferred method of filtering data to ensure that it is never recorded or transmitted is to do so at the interface level with the avionic busses. This paper describes the data filtering used on the F-22 Program for the MIL-STD-1553 buses and the FOTR bus as part of the IRIG-106 Chapter 10 Multiplexer/Recorder System. This filtering method blocks selected data at the interface level prior to being transferred over the system bus to the media(s). Additionally, the paper describes the configuration method for defining the data to be blocked and the report generated in order to allow for a second party to verify proper programming of the system.
Kupferschmidt, Benjamin. "Bulk Creation of Data Acquisition Parameters." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604250.
Full textModern data acquisition systems can be very time consuming to configure. The most time consuming aspect of configuring a data acquisition system is defining the measurements that the system will collect. Each measurement has to be uniquely identified in the system and the system needs to know what data the measurement will sample. Data acquisition systems are capable of sampling thousands of measurements in a single test flight. If all of the measurements are created by hand, it can take many hours to input all of the required measurements into the data acquisition system's setup software. This process can also be extremely tedious since many measurements are very similar. This paper will examine several possible solutions to the problem of rapidly creating large numbers of data acquisition measurements. If the list of measurements that need to be created already exists in an electronic format then the simplest approach would be to create an importer. The two main ways to import data are XML and comma separated value files. This paper will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. In addition to importers, this paper will discuss a system that can be used to create large numbers of similar measurements very quickly. This system is ideally suited to MILSTD- 1553 and ARINC-429 bus data. It exploits the fact that most bus measurements are typically very similar to each other. For example, 1553 measurements typically differ only in terms of the command word and the selected data words. This system allows the user to specify ranges of data words for each command word. It can then create the measurements based on the user specified ranges.
Gaddis, William R. Jr, and Sawn Sandland. "AATIS AND CAIS DATA RECORDING." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608876.
Full textDOD flight test centers need affordable, small-format, flight-qualified digital instrumentation recording solutions to support existing and future flight testing. The Advanced Airborne Test Instrumentation System (AATIS) is today's primary data acquisition system at the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC). Digital Recorder (DR) 1995 is planned to provide full support for AATIS output capabilities and satisfy initial recording requirements for the Common Airborne Instrumentation System (CAIS). The follow-on to the AATIS, the CAIS is a tri-service development to satisfy future DOD flight test data acquisition requirements. DR 2000 is planned as the future recording solution for CAIS and will be able to fully satisfy the 50 Mbps recording requirement. In the developments of DR 1995 and DR 2000, commonality and interoperability have emerged as significant issues. This paper presents an overview of these recording solutions and examines commonality and interoperability issues.
Halling, Jon. "1553-Simulator. In-/uppspelning av databusstrafik med hjälp av FPGA." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Electrical Engineering, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-1187.
Full textAt Saab Aerospace in Linköping, components for measurement systems to the fighter aircraft JAS 39 Gripen are developed. In this activity you sometimes want to record the traffic transmitted on the data busses that connects different sys-tems. This traffic on the data busses is using the military standard MIL-STD-1553.
This project has aimed to create a system for recording and sending 1553-data. The system is used on an ordinary personal computer, equipped with a recon- figurable I/O card that among others has a programmable logic circuit (FPGA). The recorded data are stored on a hard drive. The system has a graphical user interface, where the user can configure different methods of filtering the data, and other preferences.
The completed system has currently the capacity to record one channel. This works excellent and the system basically meets all the requirements stated at the start of the project. By using this system instead of the commercial available systems on the market one will get a competitive alternative. If the system where to be developed further, with more channels, it would get even more price worth. Both in case of price per channel, but also in functionality. This is because it is possible to design exactly the functions the user demands. But the current version is already fully functional and competitive compared to commercial systems.
Laird, Daniel T. "Radio Frequency Test Lab Built on Non-Developmental Items." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/606433.
Full textThe DoD has recently mandated new acquisition, or procurement strategies for the research and development community. The policy includes using Non-Developmental Items (NDI) whenever feasible, as well as avoiding the use of proprietary sources. Such practices lesson time from specification to operation, ease of extensibility and progressive maintainability. In this paper we discuss the NDI and in-house designed test assets developed and implemented for testing the pods. Our time from specification to test was less then one year.
Jensen, Peter, and Christopher Thacker. "A NEW GENERATION OF RECORDING TECHNOLOGY THE SOLID STATE RECORDER." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/607372.
Full textThe Test & Evaluation community is starting to migrate toward solid state recording. This paper outlines some of the important areas that are new to solid state recording as well as examining some of the issues involved in moving to a direct recording methodology. Some of the parameters used to choose a solid state memory architecture are included. A matrix to compare various methods of data recording, such as solid state and magnetic tape recording, will be discussed. These various methods will be evaluated using the following parameters: Ruggedness (Shock, Vibration, Temperature), Capacity, and Reliability (Error Correction). A short discussion of data formats with an emphasis on efficiency and usability is included.
Berdugo, Albert. "THE USE OF AN IRIG-106 CHAPTER 10 RECORDER AS A TELEMETRY SYSTEM." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604412.
Full textIRIG-106 Chapter 10 has become the recording standard for most of the new flight test programs and many of the current ongoing programs. The primary goal of the standard was to define a common format for recording 100% bulk data such as PCM, MIL-STD-1553 busses, Video/Audio, ARINC-429, Ethernet, IEEE-1394, Analog Data, and others. In most cases the standard has provided the instrumentation engineers and the data analysts with a recording solution that meets their needs. Many programs require transmission of safety of flight data from a subset of the data acquired by the recorder. This may include selected video/audio channels, selected avionics bus data, and others. This requirement presents a dilemma to the flight test engineer who must duplicate part of the system for telemetry. This paper discusses several applications in which the IRIG-106 Chapter 10 recorder can be used as a telemetry system. It will include the transmission of bulk MIL-STD-1553 data per IRIG-106 Chapter 8, transmission of multiple Video/Audio and PCM data channels, and transmission of selected avionics data per IRIG-106 Chapter 4.
Kim, Jeong Min. "REDUCTION AND ANALYSIS PROGRAM FOR TELEMETRY RECORDINGS (RAPTR): ANALYSIS AND DECOMMUTATION SOFTWARE FOR IRIG 106 CHAPTER 10 DATA." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604912.
Full textSolid State On-Board Recording is becoming a revolutionary way of recording airborne telemetry data and IRIG 106 Chapter 10 “Solid State On-Board Recorder Standard” provides interface documentation for solid state digital data acquisition. The Reduction and Analysis Program for Telemetry Recordings (RAPTR) is a standardized and extensible software application developed by the 96th Communications Group, Test and Analysis Division, at Eglin AFB, and provides a data reduction capability for disk files in Chapter 10 format. This paper provides the system description and software architecture of RAPTR and presents the 96th Communication Group’s total solution for Chapter 10 telemetry data reduction.
Thomas, Tim. "CAPS: AN EGLIN RANGE STANDARD FOR PC-BASED TELEMETRY DATA REDUCTION." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/607489.
Full textA need exists to provide a flexible data reduction tool that minimizes software development costs and reduces analysis time for telemetry data. The Common Airborne Processing System (CAPS), developed by the Freeman Computer Sciences Center at Eglin AFB, Florida, provides a generalpurpose data reduction capability for digitally recorded data on a PC. Data from virtually any kind of MIL-STD-1553 message or Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) frame can be extracted and converted to engineering units using a parameter dictionary that describes the data format. The extracted data can then be written to a file, ASCII or binary, with a great deal of flexibility in the output format. CAPS has become the standard for digitally recorded data reduction on a PC at Eglin. New features, such as composing derived parameters using mathematical expressions, are being added to CAPS to make it an even more productive data reduction tool. This paper provides a conceptual overview of the CAPS version 2.3 software.
Hunt, Trent W. "Common Airborne Processing System (CAPS) 2.0: Data Reduction Software on a Personal Computer (PC)." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/609756.
Full textCAPS 2.0 provides a flexible, PC-based tool for meeting evolving data reduction and analysis requirements while supporting standardization of instrumentation data processing. CAPS 2.0 will accept a variety of data types including raw instrumentation, binary, ASCII, and Internet protocol message data and will output Engineering Unit data to files, static or dynamic plots, and Internet protocol message exchange. Additionally, CAPS 2.0 will input and output data in accordance with the Digital Data Standard. CAPS 2.0 will accept multiple input sources of PCM, MIL-STD-1553, or DDS data to create an output for every Output Product Description and Dictionary grouping specified for a particular Session. All of this functionality is performed on a PC within the framework of the Microsoft Windows 95/NT graphical user interface.
Ricker, William, and John Jr Kolb. "A HIGH-SPEED, RUGGEDIZED, MINIATURE INSTRUMENTATION RECORDER UTILIZING COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGY." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608915.
Full textDue to the vast amount of data required to be collected for design/performance analysis of operational and development systems, there has evolved a real requirement for a high-speed, large capacity, data collection/record system in a small Flight/Ruggedized package. This need is realized by several user communities and factors which include the evolution of small operational vehicles (airborne, land and UAV’s), the desire of weapons manufacturers/integrators to be independent from the vehicle during vehicle integration, and a general need for a field/airborne, reliable portable data collection system for intelligence gathering, operational performance verification and on-board data processing. In the Air Defence community, the need for a ruggedized record system was highlighted after Desert Storm, in which the operational performance of the Patriot Missile was questioned and data collection was not performed to support the performance. The Aydin Vector Division in conjunction with the prime contractor, has come up with a solution to this problem which utilizes a commercially available helical scan 8mm data storage unit. This solution provides a highly reliable record system, ruggedized for airborne and field environments and a low price in comparison with the more traditional approaches currently offered. This paper will describe the design implementation of this small ruggedized, flight worthy Data collection system deemed the ATD-800. It will also discuss the performance and limitations of implementing such a system, as well as provide several applications and solutions to different operational environments to be encountered. Additionally, the paper will conclude with several product enhancements which may benefit the flight test, operational and intelligence communities in the future.
Ljunggren, Birgitta. "Spacecraft Interface Standards Analysis and Simple Breadboarding." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2892.
Full textThis report is a result of a thesis work done for Linköping University at Contraves Space AG in Zürich, Switzerland. The aim was to perform an analysis of 12 interface standards and construct a simple breadboard, which should function as a testsystem for the data communication interface MIL-STD-1553.
The conclusion of the extensive analysis is that SpaceWire, MIL-STD-1553 and CAN are the most interesting interfaces for future data communication in spacecrafts. In the breadboard part of the work, a test system was built and data gathered with help from a demonstration program that came with one of the components.
Abbott, Laird. "INSTRUMENTATION OF OPERATIONAL BOMBER AIRCRAFT." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/607356.
Full textAirborne instrumentation used during flight tests is being installed and maintained in a unique way by operational bomber testers from the Air Force’s 53d Wing. The ability of the flight test community to test on operational aircraft has always been somewhat curtailed by the need for advanced forms of instrumentation. Operational fighter flight test squadrons have aircraft assigned to them, which they modify on as needed basis, much the same as developmental testers. However, bomber operational test units must use operational aircraft to accomplish their mission as there are no bombers in the Air Force’s Air Combat Command (ACC) specifically set aside for operational tests. During test missions, these units borrow aircraft from operational bomb wings, and then return them to service with the bomb wing after testing is complete. Yet, the requirement for instrumentation on these test missions is not much different than that of developmental testers. The weapon system engineer’s typically require Mil-Std-1553, video, telemetry, and Global Positioning System (GPS) Time-Space-Position-Information airborne receiver recordings. In addition, this data must be synchronized with an IRIG-B time code source, and recorded with the same precision as the data gathered during development test and evaluation (DT&E). As a result, several techniques have been developed, and instrumentation systems designed for these operational test units to incorporate instrumentation on operational aircraft. Several factors hamper the usual modification process in place at bases such as Edwards AFB and Eglin AFB. Primary among these is the requirement to maintain the aircraft in an operational configuration, and still meet all of the modification design safety criteria placed on the design team by the aircraft’s single manager. Secondary to the list of restrictions is modification time. Aircraft resources are stretched quite thin when one considers all of the bomb wing’s operational commitments. When they must release an aircraft for test missions, the testers must insure that schedule impacts are minimal. Therefore, these systems must install and de-install within one to two days and be completely portable. Placing holes in existing structures or adding new permanent structure is unacceptable. In addition, these aircraft must be capable of returning to combat ready status at any time. This paper centers on the B-52 bomber, and the active aircraft temporary modifications under control of the 49th Test Squadron (49 TESTS) at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. The B-52 presents unique design challenges all its own, in addition to the general restrictions already mentioned. This paper will present the options that the 49 TESTS has successfully used to overcome the aforementioned restrictions, and provide an appropriate level of specialized instrumentation for its data collection requirements.
Wester, Robert Stanley. "Fiber-optic implementation of MIL STD-1553: a serial bus protocol." Thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/22264.
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