Laboratory Implementation of the Continuously Reconfiguring Multi-Microprocessor Flight Control System (CRMMFCS)

Abstract

The initial CRMMFSC report (AFWAL-TR-81-3070/AD-A101412) highlighted the theoretical concepts and established the boundaries for realizing an autonomously distributed control system. This report covers the hardware and software methods used in the laboratory model to achieve the goals as set down in the concept phase. The discussion highlights the hardware construction, revealing the operations and the reasoning behind the choices made. The section on software reviews the techniques used to glue the hardware together to become a system. The completed laboratory model and its testing under a number of conditions are discussed. Keywords: Bus conductors; Serial processors; Digital control systems; Multi microprocessors; Flight control systems; distributed control; Reconfiguration; Distributed systems; Distributed data processing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA217730

Entities

People

  • Bill Rollison
  • Dan Thompson
  • Mark Mears
  • Ray Bortner
  • Stan Pruett

Organizations

  • Wright Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Application Software
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Governments
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Kernels (Operating System)
  • Monitoring
  • Operating Systems
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Software Engineering.