A kinematic/kinetic hybrid airplane simulator model : draft.

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• Creators:
  Fairley, Gerard T. ; McGovern, Seamus
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Aircraft Flight Simulators
• Publication/ Report Number:
  IMECE2008-66430
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2008
• Corporate Publisher:
  2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-AVIATION-AVIATION ; NTL-AVIATION-Aviation Safety/Airworthiness
• Abstract:
  A kinematics-based flight model, for normal flight
  
  regimes, currently uses precise flight data to achieve a high
  
  level of aircraft realism. However, it was desired to further
  
  increase the model’s accuracy, without a substantial increase in
  
  program complexity, by determining the vertical velocity and
  
  vertical acceleration using EUROCONTROL’s Base of Aircraft
  
  DAta (BADA) model [1]. BADA is a well-known aircraft
  
  performance database model maintained and developed by
  
  EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre in France.
  
  The hybrid model uses the BADA algorithm to determine the
  
  vertical velocity and gives original results for determining the
  
  vertical acceleration. The approximate accuracy of these
  
  vertical parameters was checked by comparing them with preexisting
  
  test distributions [2] and an in-house flight simulator
  
  application. The hybrid model uses kinematic algorithms for all
  
  other functions and parameters. To obtain specific results, C
  
  code was written to access text data from BADA’s collection of
  
  approximately one hundred airplanes. Accessing this database
  
  causes an increase in overall program execution time that was
  
  deemed acceptable due to the infrequency of changing plane
  
  types. Also, by examining many airplane trajectories obtained
  
  from different BADA airplanes, we determined that the model is
  
  accurate enough to uniquely represent many different types of
  
  aircraft.
  
  
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  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
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