Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Laboratory Testing for Multisensor Sense and Avoid Systems
This paper focuses on a hardware-in-the-loop facility aimed at real-time testing of architectures and algorithms of multisensor sense and avoid systems. It was developed within a research project aimed at flight demonstration of autonomous non-cooperative collision avoidance for Unmanned Aircraft Sy...
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| author | Giancarmine Fasano Domenico Accardo Lidia Forlenza Alfredo Renga Giancarlo Rufino Urbano Tancredi Antonio Moccia |
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| description | This paper focuses on a hardware-in-the-loop facility aimed at real-time testing of architectures and algorithms of multisensor sense and avoid systems. It was developed within a research project aimed at flight demonstration of autonomous non-cooperative collision avoidance for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. In this framework, an optionally piloted Very Light Aircraft was used as experimental platform. The flight system is based on multiple-sensor data integration and it includes a Ka-band radar, four electro-optical sensors, and two dedicated processing units. The laboratory test system was developed with the primary aim of prototype validation before multi-sensor tracking and collision avoidance flight tests. System concept, hardware/software components, and operating modes are described in the paper. The facility has been built with a modular approach including both flight hardware and simulated systems and can work on the basis of experimentally tested or synthetically generated scenarios. Indeed, hybrid operating modes are also foreseen which enable performance assessment also in the case of alternative sensing architectures and flight scenarios that are hardly reproducible during flight tests. Real-time multisensor tracking results based on flight data are reported, which demonstrate reliability of the laboratory simulation while also showing the effectiveness of radar/electro-optical fusion in a non-cooperative collision avoidance architecture. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f1abb22627c04c0e89f9b9cfee1c01442025-02-03T07:24:20ZengWileyInternational Journal of Aerospace Engineering1687-59661687-59742013-01-01201310.1155/2013/748751748751Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Laboratory Testing for Multisensor Sense and Avoid SystemsGiancarmine Fasano0Domenico Accardo1Lidia Forlenza2Alfredo Renga3Giancarlo Rufino4Urbano Tancredi5Antonio Moccia6Department of Industrial Engineering (DII), University of Naples “Federico II,” Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, ItalyDepartment of Industrial Engineering (DII), University of Naples “Federico II,” Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, ItalyDepartment of Industrial Engineering (DII), University of Naples “Federico II,” Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, ItalyDepartment of Industrial Engineering (DII), University of Naples “Federico II,” Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, ItalyDepartment of Industrial Engineering (DII), University of Naples “Federico II,” Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, ItalyDepartment for Technologies, University of Naples “Parthenope,” Centro Direzionale, Isola C4, 80143 Naples, ItalyDepartment of Industrial Engineering (DII), University of Naples “Federico II,” Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, ItalyThis paper focuses on a hardware-in-the-loop facility aimed at real-time testing of architectures and algorithms of multisensor sense and avoid systems. It was developed within a research project aimed at flight demonstration of autonomous non-cooperative collision avoidance for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. In this framework, an optionally piloted Very Light Aircraft was used as experimental platform. The flight system is based on multiple-sensor data integration and it includes a Ka-band radar, four electro-optical sensors, and two dedicated processing units. The laboratory test system was developed with the primary aim of prototype validation before multi-sensor tracking and collision avoidance flight tests. System concept, hardware/software components, and operating modes are described in the paper. The facility has been built with a modular approach including both flight hardware and simulated systems and can work on the basis of experimentally tested or synthetically generated scenarios. Indeed, hybrid operating modes are also foreseen which enable performance assessment also in the case of alternative sensing architectures and flight scenarios that are hardly reproducible during flight tests. Real-time multisensor tracking results based on flight data are reported, which demonstrate reliability of the laboratory simulation while also showing the effectiveness of radar/electro-optical fusion in a non-cooperative collision avoidance architecture.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/748751 |
| spellingShingle | Giancarmine Fasano Domenico Accardo Lidia Forlenza Alfredo Renga Giancarlo Rufino Urbano Tancredi Antonio Moccia Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Laboratory Testing for Multisensor Sense and Avoid Systems International Journal of Aerospace Engineering |
| title | Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Laboratory Testing for Multisensor Sense and Avoid Systems |
| title_full | Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Laboratory Testing for Multisensor Sense and Avoid Systems |
| title_fullStr | Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Laboratory Testing for Multisensor Sense and Avoid Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Laboratory Testing for Multisensor Sense and Avoid Systems |
| title_short | Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Laboratory Testing for Multisensor Sense and Avoid Systems |
| title_sort | real time hardware in the loop laboratory testing for multisensor sense and avoid systems |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/748751 |
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