University: Korea Aerospace University
Team Member(s): Dong Guk. Choi
Email Address: codnkk@naver.com
Country: South Korea (Republic of Korea)
This application is aircraft instrument system. It displays flight indicator, engine indicator and navigation system.
LabVIEW 2009
The information of state of aircraft is very important to aircraft operation. The kind of the data is airspeed, attitude, position, rpm, Temperature, pressure and etc. In case of Manned Aerial Vehicle, it can get the data because it has instruments inside. However Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is necessary to instrument system on the ground to know the data because it is not have.
The trend of large aircraft instruments have been changing to digital instrument, but small aircraft is used mechanical instrument yet. It can't exactly indicate the data and can have reading-error in each person. Therefore, if you use this application, you can exactly and easy display the data of aircraft.
This application need to flight data of aircraft. There are two way to receive the data. One is flight of real aircraft. The other is flight simulation program. The first is too expensive and dangerous. Therefore, this application uses the latter, flight simulator X-Plane.
1. X-Plane Flight Simulator
This application receives to X-Plane data through UDP communication.
2. Flight Instrument
Flight page is flight information. It displays air speed, attitude, altitude, turn coordinate, heading. Especially, Attitude displayed to 3D, so you can show motion of aircraft attitude and control surface.
3. Engine Instrument
It is very important to know if engine operation is normal. Engine page is displayed engine RPM, Oil Pressure, Oil Temperature, CHT, EGT, Fuel Pressure, Fuel Temperature, Fuel Flow, Fuel Quantity.
4. Navigation
Navigation page is displayed latitude and longitude of position of aircraft. You can enter a waypoint and check expected route(red line) and real path(white line).