Integrated Avionics Systems

AOE 4065 – Aircraft Design

AIAA - Team #6 - 10/5/06

John Zimmer
Matt Stahr
What are Integrated Aircraft Avionics?

 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

 Navigation
 Communications
 Electronic Warfare
 Flight Control
 Displays
 Fully Integrated Northrop
Grumman AMMC

Courtesy Northrop Grumman

Navigational Systems

 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

 Radio receivers/transceivers
 Voice-to-data
 Digital messaging
 Satellite communications

Courtesy Northrop Grumman

Electronic Warfare Systems

 IFF (Identification of Friend or Foe)

 Jamming and countermeasures
 Weapons management
 Target sighting/tracking
 Defense

Courtesy http://www.cognitivedistortion.com
Flight Control Systems

 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

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

 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
 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-22-avio
nics.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.htm
 http://www.dsp.dla.mil/2004-DSP-conf/Condra-031604.ppt
 http://www.aerosonic.com/index.htm
 http://www.iccd-conference.org/proceedings/
1996/75540141.pdf#search=%22future%20avionics
%20systems%22
 http://www.honeywell.com/sites/aero/
Flight_Controls_Guidance.htm
Questions?