Integrated Avionics Systems
AOE 4065 – Aircraft Design
AIAA - Team #6 - 10/5/06
John Zimmer
Matt Stahr
What are Integrated Aircraft Avionics?
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To pilot: all coordinated information is
available from a single source
To software engineer: full access to shared
data about situation, mission, and systems
To hardware designer: systems as a single
unit with ample bandwidth to support
processing
Avionics Systems
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Navigation
Communications
Electronic Warfare
Flight Control
Displays
Fully Integrated Northrop
Grumman AMMC
Courtesy Northrop Grumman
Navigational Systems
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Radar
Weather/terrain monitoring
Air traffic tracking
GPS
Inertial reference systems
i.e. Honeywell Primus Epic INAV and
Northrop Grumman LTN-101E GNADIRU
Communications Systems
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Radio receivers/transceivers
Voice-to-data
Digital messaging
Satellite communications
Courtesy Northrop Grumman
Electronic Warfare Systems
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IFF (Identification of Friend or Foe)
Jamming and countermeasures
Weapons management
Target sighting/tracking
Defense
Courtesy http://www.cognitivedistortion.com
Flight Control Systems
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Autopilot - Controls Altitude, Attitude and
Heading
Measurements of position, angular velocities,
and linear accelerations in all degrees of
freedom
i.e. Honeywell Primus 1000, Primus 2000,
and KFC 225
Courtesy Honeywell
Display Systems
HUD (Heads Up Display)
 HDD (Head Down Display)
 HMD (Head Mounted Display)
 All instrumentation
and gauges
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Courtesy Rockwell Collins
Where We Have Been
Courtesy
http://www.easa.eu.int/conference2005/presentations/day3/Cert/complex_avionics_bahrami.ppt
Where We Are Going
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Mitigation/elimination of radiation and
electromagnetic effects on avionics
Slowing semiconductor wear out in devices
More progressive form of flight planning
Greater integration of in-flight data with ground
systems
Projects worked on by: Boeing, Honeywell, Smith’s
Aerospace, and Goodrich Aerospace as well as
others.
Sources
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-22avionics.htm
http://www.rockwellcollins.com/ecat/br/Pro_Line_21.html
http://www.honeywell.com/sites/aero/PrimusEpic.htm
http://www.nsd.es.northropgrumman.com/Html/ITAS/index_4.ht
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http://www.dsp.dla.mil/2004-DSP-conf/Condra-031604.ppt
http://www.aerosonic.com/index.htm
http://www.iccdconference.org/proceedings/1996/75540141.pdf#search=%22f
uture%20avionics%20systems%22
http://www.honeywell.com/sites/aero/Flight_Controls_Guidance
.htm
Questions?