Bomber Modular Data Acquisition System Overview
Abstract
The Bomber Instrumentation Team from the 812th Aircraft Instrumentation Test Squadron (AITS) at Edwards Air Force Base needed a dataacquisition system that would serve as the optimal backbone for test B-52H Stratofortress aircraft at Edwards for current and future instrumentation requirements. The modular Ethernet based system would be expandable so that when future programs required additional data parameters to be captured the aircraft would only be grounded for a month or two instead of 6-8 months. The modular tray design allows not only for each subsystem to flow from the laboratory test environment to airborne instrumentation seamlessly but it also successfully has integrated into other programs and aircraft platforms. Due to flexibility of the system, BMDAS is established as the backbone for the Radar Modernization Program (RMP). The future of BMDAS will be used to collect thousands of analog parameters, including strain, vibration, acoustics, temperature, and flow on the Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP) aircraft. The overall success of the system on the B-52H has caused the Bomber Instrumentation Team to investigate the feasibility of incorporating BMDAS on the B-1B Lancertest aircraft.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 26, 2021
- Accession Number
- AD1136455
Entities
People
- Trevor Londergan