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Progress Toward a Format Standard for Flight Dynamics ModelsIn the beginning, there was FORTRAN, and it was... not so good. But it was universal, and all flight simulator equations of motion were coded with it. Then came ACSL, C, Ada, C++, C#, Java, FORTRAN-90, Matlab/Simulink, and a number of other programming languages. Since the halcyon punch card days of 1968, models of aircraft flight dynamics have proliferated in training devices, desktop engineering and development computers, and control design textbooks. With the rise of industry teaming and increased reliance on simulation for procurement decisions, aircraft and missile simulation models are created, updated, and exchanged with increasing frequency. However, there is no real lingua franca to facilitate the exchange of models from one simulation user to another. The current state-of-the-art is such that several staff-months if not staff-years are required to 'rehost' each release of a flight dynamics model from one simulation environment to another one. If a standard data package or exchange format were to be universally adopted, the cost and time of sharing and updating aerodynamics, control laws, mass and inertia, and other flight dynamic components of the equations of motion of an aircraft or spacecraft simulation could be drastically reduced. A 2002 paper estimated over $ 6 million in savings could be realized for one military aircraft type alone. This paper describes the efforts of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) to develop a standard flight dynamic model exchange standard based on XML and HDF-5 data formats.
Document ID
20060048508
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Jackson, E. Bruce (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Hildreth, Bruce L. (Science Applications International Corp. MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2006
Subject Category
Aircraft Stability And Control
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 984754.02.07.07
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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