Flight Demonstration of X-33 Vehicle Health Management System Components on the F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft. Conference Paper 2000DASC6A5, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

Schweikhard, Keith A. and Richards, W. Lance and Theisen, John and Mouyos, William and Garbos, Raymond (2000) Flight Demonstration of X-33 Vehicle Health Management System Components on the F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft. Conference Paper 2000DASC6A5, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

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Abstract

The X-33 reusable launch vehicle demonstrator has identified the need to implement a vehicle health monitoring system that can acquire data that monitors system health and performance. Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, has designed and developed a COTS-based open architecture system that implements a number of technologies that have not been previously used in a flight environment. NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and Sanders teamed to demonstrate that the distributed remote health nodes, fiber optic distributed strain sensor, and fiber distributed data interface communications components of the X-33 vehicle health management (VHM) system could be successfully integrated and flown on a NASA F-18 aircraft. This paper briefly describes components of X-33 VHM architecture flown at Dryden and summarizes the integration and flight demonstration of these X-33 VHM components. Finally, it presents early results from the integration and flight efforts.

EPrint Type:	Other
Keywords:	F/A-18 aircraft, X-33 vehicle
Subjects:	Aircraft/Project: X-33 Aircraft/Project: F-18 SRA
ID Code:	1694
Deposited On:	25 July 2007
Additional Information:	11 pages. Presented as Track 6, Session A, Paper 5 (6A5) at the AIAA/IEEE 19th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 7-13, 2000.