Sea-Based Automated Launch and Recovery System Virtual Testbed

Abstract

The primary objective of the Sea-based Automated Launch and Recovery System (SALRS) program is to enable automated launch and recovery capabilities for sea-based naval aircraft. In support of this objective, the program is exploring the performance of sensors in degraded environments as well as the fusion of data from multiple sensors with Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS) technology. A simulation capability, the SALRS Virtual Testbed, is being built to facilitate testing of the technologies developed through SALRS in a high fidelity shipboard environment. The components and functionality of the testbed are described. A generic sensor model is used to simulate the effects of noise, dropouts and bias on the navigation signal, and the performance of a helicopter landing on a ship in degraded conditions is evaluated. Multiple sensor types are integrated with an Extended Kalman Filter to study sensor fusion in a fixed wing aircraft shipboard recovery scenario.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 02, 2013
Accession Number
ADA605278

Entities

People

  • Colin H. Wilkinson
  • David B. Findlay
  • Kenny Boothe
  • Surjan Dogra

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Algorithms
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Guidance
  • Helicopters
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Kalman Filters
  • Navigation
  • Reliability
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Sea Based
  • Sensor Fusion
  • Simulations

Readers

  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers