Flight Control HILS

Tests with direct full equipment can be very expensive, inefficient, and potentially unsafe.

Hardware-in-the-loop-simulation (HILS) tests can be used to demonstrate control system design and test control software without direct physical execution on systems requiring very rigorous real-time performance.

We provide the most efficient and optimized HILS solution for ground integration testing of highly rigorous real-time flight control systems.

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HILS is an equipment that performs integrated tests on the ground in an environment and method similar to the actual flight environment by linking flight control computers of aircraft (or guided weapons) with all flight control system equipment.

It includes flight control software tests including aircraft 6DOF algorithms, interface tests with flight control computers and flight control system equipment (actuators, navigation devices, etc.), function tests, and interlocking tests with other system equipment.

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Aircraft (or guided weapons) flight control requires the highest level of reliability rating in stability and should take precedence over any requirement. A flight control error means flight failure, so a thorough verification of all flight control requirements is required, and flight control HILS equipment is essential to perform this.

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For HILS, virtual model implementation and fault injection, convenient switching test between simulation model and actual equipment, abnormal mode detection, and various error analysis functions must be provided to enable test data to be performed in real time.

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Building a HILS that requires high reliability requires a lot of development manpower, time, and accumulated experience. However, in order to build and test an effective HILS environment with a recent short development cycle of weapon systems, and small manpower it is necessary to utilize a proven simulation engine that can, guarantee complete real-time and well-integrated test solution.

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REALTIMEWAVE's RTNgine provides an optimized solution for building a HILS environment.

It ensures data reliability under strong multi-core CPU and real-time OS environments, supports most of the interfaces required by the latest technology, and enables fast simulation in conjunction with a variety of model development environments. (Matlab/Simulink, C, Fortran, etc.) It also provides products with a variety of functions, from deriving test needs to managing large amounts of ICDs and accurate analysis and automation of test data.

Using REALTIMEWAVE's HILS solution means that you don't spend a lot of time building and setting up a HILS environment, but just focus on actual tests. This already has a very important factor in project success.