Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation of Ares I Launch Vehicle

Abstract

The Ares Real-Time Environment for Modeling, Integration, and Simulation (ARTEMIS) has been developed for use by the Ares I launch vehicle System Integration Laboratory at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The primary purpose of the Ares System Integration Laboratory is to test the vehicle avionics hardware and software in a hardwarein-the-loop environment to certify that the integrated system is prepared for flight. ARTEMIS has been designed to be the real-time simulation backbone to stimulate all required Ares components for verification testing. ARTE_VIIS provides high -fidelity dynamics, actuator, and sensor models to simulate an accurate flight trajectory in order to ensure realistic test conditions. ARTEMIS has been designed to take advantage of the advances in underlying computational power now available to support hardware-in-the-loop testing to achieve real-time simulation with unprecedented model fidelity. A modular realtime design relying on a fully distributed computing architecture has been implemented.

Design of the wind tunnel based virtual flight testing evaluation method for flight control systems

“…It can not only guide us to build a VFT test system, but also provide a possible method to evaluate FCSs after the test system is built. There are many literatures introducing FCS evaluation methods, such as the fully mathematical simulation evaluation methods in Magill et al, 18 Sisle, 19 Georgie and Valasek, 20 and Dadkhah and Mettler, 21 the software-in-the-loop simulation evaluation methods in Paw and Balas, 22 Prodan et al, 23 the HILS evaluation methods in Filho et al, 24 Mueller, 25 Tobbe et al, 26 Cai et al, 27 Huang and Zhang, 28 the pilot-in-the-loop simulation evaluation methods in Farris et al, 29 Swenson et al, 30 and the flight test evaluation methods in Damman, 31 Scherz and Tucker, 32 Toupet and Mettler, 33 Ninomiya et al, 34 Sakai et al 35 But there are few literatures mentioning the VFT evaluation methods. How to evaluate FCSs with VFT is still unknown.…”

“…From the simulation and flight test evaluation methods, [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] the general flow of FCS evaluation is shown in Figure 2. According to the flow, an FCS evaluation method can be divided into three parts: test method, data processing method, and FCS performance determination method.…”

Quaternion-based attitude control design and hardware-in-the-loop simulation of suborbital modules with cold gas thrusters

“…In another work, a HIL platform is developed for modeling, integration, and simulation of the AresI launch vehicle System Integration Laboratory at the Marshall Space Flight Center. 16 The primary purpose of the Ares System Integration is to test the vehicle avionics hardware and software to certify that the integrated system is prepared for the flight. The thrusters used in the tests are of high-level liquid type.…”

Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation and Flight Experimentation of the Control System on a Small Solid Rocket

“…Among them, the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation and flight-testing are the most commonly used methods. Having the highest level of confidence, the HIL simulation has been successfully applied to the control system design of launch vehicle [1] , missile [2] , and unmanned aircraft [3] , in order to verify the algorithm of navigation [4] , guidance [5] and guide the design of the controller [6] . Various uncertain factors will appear in real flight environment, so the flight test become the most direct means of test for control system design [7,8] .…”