Structural Modeling: An Application Framework and Development Process for Flight Simulators

Abstract

In this paper, we present the structural modeling approach, an application framework and development process for the construction of flight simulators. Structural modeling was developed to address functional, nonfunctional, and process requirements for flight simulators. It has been successfully use in the development of large scale (one million lines of Ada code) flight simulators for the United States Air Force. A structural model promotes a simple and coherent software architecture with a small number of specialized structural elements obeying a few system-wide coordination strategies. It is this simplicity coherence of the software architecture that enables analysis to demonstrate the quality of the system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA271348

Entities

People

  • Gregory D. Abowd
  • Larry Howard
  • Len Bass
  • Linda M. Northrop

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Classification
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Flight Simulators
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Time Intervals
  • Training
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Software Engineering.