The modeling method of agents and service-oriented architecture (SOA) in avionics systems describes agents and SOA in avionics systems with models. To our knowledge, however, the current modeling methods cannot describe the behavior of agents and SOA...
This paper introduces the development history and process of low altitude economy, explains the characteristics and advantages of low altitude economy, and further discusses the development direction and trend of commercial low-altitude aircraft. By...
Single-Pilot Operations (SPO) mode is set to reshape the decision-making process between human-machine and air-ground operations. However, the limited on-board computing resources impose greater demands on the organization of performance parameters a...
Avionics Cloud is a new multi-platform avionics system architecture that provides dynamic access, resource pooling, intelligent scheduling, on-demand service and other cloud computing features. Using Avionics Cloud to rationalize the order of multi-f...
Avionics systems, which determine the performance, stability, and safety of aircraft, are a crucial part of aircraft. With the rapid development of the aviation industry, there are many serious problems in the process of the traditional simulation an...
As the synthesis, modularization, and integration of avionics systems increase, the interconnections between systems and equipment within subsystems become increasingly complex, posing risks to the safety and reliability of the integrated avionics sy...
The interconnectivity of avionics systems supports the need to incorporate functional safety and information security into airworthiness validation and maintenance protocols, which is critical. This necessity arises from the demanding operational env...
The article presents selected results of analytical and design works undertaken at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in the field of building a computer support and software lifecycle management system that is critical for flight safety. T...
The article suggests design principles of an advanced onboard computer network with an intelligent control system. It describes the main advantages of designing an onboard computer network based on fibre optics, which allows the implementation of an...
The cost of avionics maintenance is extremely high for modern aircraft. It can be as high as 30% of the aircraft maintenance cost. A great impact on the cost of avionics maintenance is provided by a high level of No Fault Found events (NFF). Intermit...
Multicore architecture is applied to contemporary avionics systems to deal with complex tasks. However, multicore architectures can cause interference by contention because the cores share hardware resources. This interference reduces the predictable...
The paper proposes a method for implementing a universal neural network processor with hysteresis dynamics. This processor allows a wide range of heterogeneous tasks in real time to be performed without reprogramming and changing their internal struc...
The feasibility of the future more-electric, hybrid-electric, and all-electric aircraft configurations will depend on a good understanding of thermal aspects early in the design. However, thermal analysis of aircraft equipment bays is typically perfo...
Recent electronics advances for air transport have increased aircraft density, volume, and frequency in the airspace. These advances come with control requirements for precise navigation, coordinated Air Traffic Management (ATM) or Unmanned aircraft...
Runway Safety Assistant Foreseeing Excursions (RUNSAFE) is a complete embedded system solution, that predicts a potential runway overrun of a civil aviation aircraft during takeoff and landing. This work examines the feasibility of such a system, thr...
Digital avionic solutions enable advanced flight control systems to be available also on smaller aircraft. One of the safety-critical segments is the air data system. Innovative architectures allow the use of synthetic sensors that can introduce sign...
Heterogeneity of the small aircraft category (e.g., small air transport (SAT), urban air mobility (UAM), unmanned aircraft system (UAS)), modern avionic solution (e.g., fly-by-wire (FBW)) and reduced aircraft (A/C) size require more compact, integrat...
The architecture of Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) provides airborne software with a robust temporal partitioning mechanism, which achieves the reliable fault containment between avionics applications. However, the partition scheduling of an IMA s...
With an increasing number of aircraft systems, a fully manual developmental approach is impractical for finding optimal hardware and software mapping from overwhelming configurations for Distributed Integrated Modular Avionics (DIMA) systems. The aut...
This paper analyses a new half-bridge current–source inverter for avionic systems. In the circuit, two 28 V batteries are used as inputs. These voltage sources are connected to inductors which create a constant current source. Then only two hig...
Nowadays, technologies have a massive impact on the design of avionic systems, even for the conservative space industry. In this paper, the single event effect (SEE) characterization of a highly integrated and radio frequency (RF) agile transceiver i...
The increasing electrification and integration of advanced controls in modern aircraft designs have significantly raised the number and complexity of installed printed circuit boards (PCBs), posing new challenges for efficient maintenance and rapid f...
Advances in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have paved the way for progressively higher levels of intelligence and autonomy, supporting new modes of operation, such as the one-to-many (OTM) concept, where a single human operator is responsible for mo...
Issues of aviation flight safety conducted with an on-board information exchange system are discussed. The system information analysis method is used. An analysis of in-flight hazard sources and the means of their elimination from the information exc...
Autonomous navigation (AN) and manoeuvring are increasingly important in distributed satellite systems (DSS) in order to avoid potential collisions with space debris and other resident space objects (RSO). In order to accomplish collision avoidance m...
Due to the direct influence of night vision equipment availability on the safety of night-time aerial reconnaissance, maintenance needs to be carried out regularly. Unfortunately, some defects are not easy to observe or are not even detectable by hum...
The work presented in this paper regards the improvement of a housekeeping system for data acquisition of a suborbital vehicle (VIRIATO rocket or launcher). The specifications regarding the vehicle are presented and hardware is chosen accordingly, co...
In azimuth sensing, aviation relies on the magnetic compass or magnetic sensors (flux valve, magnetometer) because the azimuth reference is Magnetic North. Maritime navigation completed the transition to True North. In October 2023, ICAO established...
This work deals with the safety analysis of an air data system (ADS) partially based on synthetic sensors. The ADS is designed for the small aircraft transportation (SAT) community and is suitable for future unmanned aerial vehicles and urban air mob...
Collision risk modelling has a long history in the aviation industry, with mature models currently utilised for the strategic planning of airspace sectors and air routes. However, the progressive introduction of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and ot...
The new requirement of installing the flight stabilization system onboard the airplanes for performing the single-pilot flights in IFR rules was issued lately. It caused the necessity of developing such a system for small aircraft. The proposed syste...
Numerous attempts have been made to extend the endurance of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by improving their propulsion system. However, due to their non-linear setup, no study has been conducted on small electric UAVs’ architecture fra...
One of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals is climate action (SDG-13), and wildfire is among the catastrophic events that both impact climate change and are aggravated by it. In Australia and other countries, large-scale wildfires h...
This paper investigates the potential vertical guidance performance of global positioning system (GPS)/wide area augmentation system (WAAS) user avionics sensor when the modernized GPS and Galileo are available. This paper will first investigate the...
Modern avionics can account for around 30% of the total cost of the aircraft. Therefore, it is essential to reduce the operational cost of avionics during a lifetime. This article addresses the critical scientific problem of creating the appropriate...
Wireless avionics intra-communication (WAIC) refers to a wireless communication system among electronic components (e.g., sensors and actuators) that are integrated or installed in an aircraft and it is proposed to replace heavy and expensive wired c...
Unexpected failures of avionics equipment critically affect flight safety, operational availability, and maintenance costs. To address these issues, Condition-Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) has emerged as a strategy to optimize maintenance timing base...
Advances in deep submicron semiconductor technology have increased the significance of studying soft errors caused by atmospheric radiation in avionics systems. Atmospheric radiation particles, such as protons and neutrons, can induce Single Event Up...
The development of time-critical Distributed Avionics Applications (DAAs) pushes beyond the limit of existing modeling methodologies to design dependable systems. Aerospace and industrial automation entail high-integrity applications where execution...
Aircraft are composed of many electronic systems: sensors, displays, navigation equipment, and communication elements. These elements require a reliable interconnection, which is a major challenge for communication networks since high reliability and...
The integrated modular avionics (IMA) system is widely used in all classes of aircraft as a result of its high functional integration and resource utilization in developing advanced avionics systems. However, a series of challenges related to safety...
Emerging Air Traffic Management (ATM) and avionics human–machine system concepts require the real-time monitoring of the human operator to support novel task assessment and system adaptation features. To realise these advanced concepts, it is essenti...
Sustainable development is of great significance. The emerging research on data-driven computational sustainability has become an effective way to solve this problem. This paper presents a fault diagnosis and prediction framework for complex systems...
With the ever-increasing industrial demand for bigger, faster and more efficient systems, a growing number of cores is integrated on a single chip. Additionally, their performance is further maximized by simultaneously executing as many processes as...
This paper presents a new design for a multimode fusion communication system, aimed at tackling the complexities of modern aeronautical communication. The system integrates multiple communication technologies, such as ad hoc networking, 5G, BeiDou sa...
In this paper, the liquid cooling and vapor compression refrigeration system based on an Antifreeze-R134a Heat Exchanger (ARHEx) was applied to the thermal management system for high-power avionics in helicopters. The heat transfer performance of the...
The evolving technologies regarding Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have led to their extended applicability in diverse domains, including surveillance, commerce, military, and smart electric grid monitoring. Modern UAV avionics enable precise aircra...
Air Traffic Management (ATM) has become complicated mainly due to the increase and variety of input information from Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS) systems as well as the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) requiring U...
Modern embedded and cyber-physical systems are ubiquitous. Many critical cyber-physical systems have real-time requirements (e.g., avionics, automobiles, power grids, manufacturing systems, industrial control systems, etc.). Recent developments and n...
The complexity and costs of the avionics communication architecture are increasing exponentially with the increasing number of embedded computers over the last few decades. To limit the cabling complexity and the deployment costs of such a communicat...
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