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02/19/2024

Abstract In autonomous technology, uncrewed aircraft systems have already become the preferred platform for the research and development of flight control systems. Although they are subjected to following and satisfying complicated scenarios of control stations, this high dependency on a specific control framework limits them in their application process and reduces the flight self-organizing network. In this article, we present a developed multilayer control system protocol with the additional supportive manned aircraft layer (Tender). The novelty of the introduced model is that uncrewed aircraft systems are monitored and navigated by the tender, and then based on the suggested scheme, data flows are controlled and transferred across the network by the developed cloud–robotics approach in the ground station layer. Therefore, it has been tried to design a semi-autonomous control network to gather data that combines human observation and the automotive nature of uncrewed aircraft

Millar, Richard C., Laliberté, Jeremy, Mahmoodi, Armin, Hashemi, Leila, Meyer, Robert Walter

External Synchronization of Distributed Redundant Flight Control Computers

01-17-02-0010

12/01/2023

This work introduces a practical approach to external synchronization for flight control computers (FCCs) deployed in a decentralized fashion. The internal synchronization among the FCCs in distributed flight control systems needs to be extended for specific applications, necessitating an urgent need for an external synchronization mechanism. For instance, when the air data and attitude reference system (ADAHRS) and the flight control computer (FCC) are not synchronized, a dead time or time offset occurs between the time the ADAHRS transmits data and the time the FCC begins executing its control functions, which can impair flight control system performance or even cause system instability, particularly for the system with incremental control approaches, such as incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion (INDI). Therefore, an external synchronization technique that does not rely on establishing a global view of time that is accurately synchronized with an external reference device has been

Khozin, Mokhamad, Holzapfel, Florian

Study on Influencing Factors of Hippocampal Injury in Closed Head Impact Experiments of Rats Using Orthogonal Experimental Design Method

2023-01-0001

04/11/2023

The hippocampus plays a crucial role in brain function and is one of the important areas of concern in closed head injury. Hippocampal injury is related to a variety of factors including the strength of mechanical load, animal age, and helmet material. To investigate the order of these factors on hippocampal injury, a three-factor, three-level experimental protocol was established using the L(3) orthogonal table. A closed head injury experiment regarding impact strength (0.3MPa, 0.5MPa, 0.7MPa), rat age (eight- week-old, ten-week-old, twelve-week-old), and helmet material (steel, plastic, rubber) were achieved by striking the rat's head with a pneumatic-driven impactor. The number of hippocampal CA3 cells was used as an evaluation indicator. The contribution of factors to the indicators and the confidence level were obtained by analysis of variance. The results showed that impact strength was the main factor affecting hippocampal injury (contribution of 89.2%, confidence level 0.01

Wang, Peng, Song, Xuewei, Zhu, Xiyan, Qiu, Jinlong, Yang, Shuaijun, Zhao, Hui

682 Guidance for Air Transport Service Bulletins (TEST POPST CT and APPSEARCH)

ARINC682 (Current)09/21/2022

This document provides industry guidance to supplement ATA standards and airframe requirements, addressing gaps and vague areas to move suppliers/vendors and airframers toward a common standard for format and wording in Vendor Service Bulletins (VSB) for Air Transport components. This document supplements the VSB guidance of iSpec 2200, providing clarity of requirements and resulting in a common standard wording and format of VSBs from all suppliers on all aircraft types. The guidance in this document is intended to be applied to VSBs created and released subsequent to the release of the guidance document and will not require the retroactive update of VSBs released prior to the creation and release of the guidance.

Best Practices to Prevent, Mitigate and Respond to Cyber Attacks on Air Traffic Management Systems

2022-26-125605/26/2022

Introduction With the digitization and advanced technology inclusions into the Air traffic management systems, there has been an increasing risk of cyber-attacks. The disruption to the computing, communication and control systems has been on an increase. These attacks along with equipment failures can have a far-reaching impact on the performance of the Air Traffic Management Systems. Cybersecurity is still uncommon and is more an after-thought than being engineered into the Systems. Description Deliberate attacks by Hackers have been demonstrated at some of the conferences where a ghost plane has been introduced in to the air space. In 2013, a German technology consultant claimed hacking Flight Management System with a simple android App and some easily available software and hardware. These increasing cyber-disruptions reflect a wider threat to the society which is pervasive, varied, and impactful. In consequence, an intense effort is needed to develop resilient cyber-systems that

Dubey, Kumud Bajaj

PHM system with comprehensive data analytics to provide localized reasoning for a failure prediction

2022-26-123005/26/2022

Aircraft system contains components to perform system core functionality, monitor system health and record the health status. The recorded health status data provides useful information that leads to the root cause of a failure. The maintenance activities are performed based on the routine procedure and manual approach to identify failure. Most system maintenance are ignored due to the failure to identify system health deterioration. The failure in aircraft systems is monitored periodically from various types of data in the aircraft such as Flight Data recorder (FDR), Aircraft Condition Monitoring System (ACMS), Weather, Maintenance and Pilot Report (PIREP) data. The fault data is embedded in these collections of data however the actual reasoning of the system failure is very difficult and cumbersome to identify and end up in the replacement of the failed component without understanding the cause of the failure. This is because the typical field failure analysis is performed in

Sundaramurthy, Ajay Byappanahalli

Halfshaft Joints Lifetime Prediction Method and Tool Development

2022-01-029003/29/2022

This study is inspired by the technological developments across all product development areas for the elimination of physical testing based on data analytics. As one of the important driveline components, halfshaft fatigue performance is mostly limited by CV Joints life. That being the case, product development engineering teams are challenged to deal with black box CV joint designs from various suppliers and validate them for different applications. In this paper, it's mentioned about the method development of road load data usage to have robust lifetime prediction for CV joints. Instantaneous joint angles which are not possible to acquire during vehicle testing with conventional equipments are one of the main parameters for the damage rating. A solution is provided to generate a correlation between theoretical angle calculations and available parameters from the given road load data. At the end of the study, calculated CV joint fatigue life in mileage are compared with the real life

Ayber, Barış, Kaplan, Murat, Genc, Utku, ÖZEN, Erman, POSA, Chris, ATKINSON, Nancy

Illuminated Vehicle Logos - Investigation on Potential Distraction and their Influence on Road Safety

2022-01-096203/29/2022

The current development of automotive lighting strives towards more and more lighting installations on vehicles. Additionally, to that, manufacturers start animating these lighting installations as coming home or leaving home greetings from the car to the driver. In the SAE Paper No. 2021-01-0852 it is shown, that these additional animations are in fact not distracting at all to other road users and when used correctly, e.g. in a sequential turn indicator, can be beneficial to the overall traffic safety. This study then aims to investigate the potential influence of illuminated logos on road safety. European law makers forbid the use of illuminated advertisement on vehicles to minimize the danger of distraction of other road users and thereby negatively influencing traffic safety. As of now, the active illumination of the manufacturer’s logo is considered advertisement. For this, a test vehicle was setup with two high luminance monitors, one at the front, one at the back, capable of

Kobbert, Jonas, Hamm, Michael, Hinterwaelder, Christian, Bullough, John D.

Physics-guided Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics for Prediction of Vehicle Cabin Occupant Thermal Comfort

2022-01-018003/29/2022

Thermal cabin comfort is the largest consumer of battery energy second only to propulsion in Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV’s). Accurate prediction of thermal comfort in the vehicle cabin with fast turnaround times will allow engineers to study the impact of various thermal comfort technologies and develop energy efficient Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. In this study a novel data-driven model based on physics-guided Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) method was developed to predict Equivalent Homogeneous Temperature (EHT), Mean Radiant Temperature (MRT) and cabin air temperature under transient conditions and drive cycles. EHT is a recognized measure of the total heat loss from the human body that can be used to characterize highly non-uniform thermal environments such as a vehicle cabin. The SINDy model was trained on drive cycle data from Climatic Wind Tunnel (CWT) for a representative Battery Electric Vehicle. The performance of the

Warey, Alok, Kaushik, Shailendra, Han, Taeyoung

AVIONICS APPLICATION SOFTWARE STANDARD INTERFACE PART 0 OVERVIEW OF ARINC 653

ARINC653P0-3 (Current)11/15/2021

This document provides an overview of the entire set of documents collectively referred to as ARINC 653. As this set of documents evolves, Part 0 has been adjusted to reflect technical changes made in Supplements to Parts 1 through 5 in conjunction with the technical changes made in the evolution of ARINC 653. A summary of the ARINC 653 documents follows: Part 0 – Overview of ARINC 653 Part 1 – Required Services Part 2 – Extended Services Part 3A – Conformity Test Specification for ARINC 653 Required Services Part 3B – Conformity Test Specification for ARINC 653 Extended Services Part 4 – Subset Services Part 5 – Core Software Recommended Capabilities The term “this document” refers to Part 0 only, while the term “ARINC 653” or “the Specification” refers to the whole set of ARINC 653 documents, currently Parts 0 to 5. The primary objective of ARINC 653 is to define a general-purpose APplication/EXecutive (APEX) interface (API = Application Program Interface) between the Core Software

Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee

Evaluating the effect of Suspension Damping on Ride and Handling Trade-Off in a Passenger Car

2021-26-008109/22/2021

In a Passive suspension, damping force is generated by a shock absorber by pressurizing the oil flow between chambers. Typically, vehicle responds with suspension deflection which significantly depends on damping forces and velocity. Tuning damping forces for various road and steering input is a Black box. In any setting, damping force w.r.t velocity is tuned for optimum ride and handling. Practically, to achieve a balance between the two is a tedious task as the choices & arrangements of inner parts like piston, port, valve etc., which defines the forces set up [soft / hard] are infinite. The objective of this paper is to measure, objectify and evaluate the performance of two such optimum setting in various ride and handling events. A passenger car set up with an optimum soft & hard suspension damping force, is studied for various ride and handling sub-attributes and their conflicts are examined in detail from a performance point of view.

Sahoo, Satyaranjan, Reuben, Eric Pranesh De, BAKSHI, Deepak, Krishnan, Hari, Singh, Amardeep

Electrical and Electronic Equipment Cooling in Commercial Transports

AIR64C-TEST-REC (Historical)08/10/2021

This document considers the cooling of equipment installed in equipment centers, which usually consist of rack-mounted equipment and panel mounted equipment in the flight deck. Instances where these two locations result in different requirements are identified. This document generally refers to the cooled equipment as E/E equipment, denoting that both electrical and electronic equipment is considered, or as an E/E equipment line-replaceable-unit (LRU). The majority of cooled equipment takes the form of LRUs. The primary focus of this document is E/E equipment which uses forced air cooling to keep the equipment within acceptable environmental limits. These limits ensure the equipment operates reliably and within acceptable tolerances. Cooling may be supplied internally or externally to the E/E equipment case. Some E/E equipment is cooled solely by natural convection, conduction, and radiation to the surrounding environment. This document discusses specification requirements, system

AC-9 Aircraft Environmental Systems Committee

Electrical and Electronic Equipment Cooling in Commercial Transports

AIR64C (Current)

08/10/2021

AC-9 Aircraft Environmental Systems Committee

Adopting Aviation Safety Knowledge into the Discussions of Safe Implementation of Connected and Autonomous Road Vehicles

2021-01-007404/06/2021

The development of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) is progressing fast. Yet, safety and standardization-related discussions are limited due to the recent nature of the sector. Despite the effort that is initiated to kick-start the study, awareness among practitioners is still low. Hence, further effort is required to stimulate this discussion. Among the available works on CAV safety, some of them take inspiration from the aviation sector that has strict safety regulations. The underlying reason is the experience that has been gained over the decades. However, the literature still lacks a thorough association between automation in aviation and the CAV from the safety perspective. As such, this paper motivates the adoption of safe-automation knowledge from aviation to facilitate safer CAV systems. The authors briefly elaborate on the widely discussed aviation themes, including autopilot and auto-throttle malfunctions, flight management system, human factors, and suggests how

Abdul Hamid, Umar Zakir, Mehndiratta, Mohit, Adali, Erkan

Detection & Tracking of Multi-Scenic Lane Based on Segnet-LSTM Semantic Split Network

2021-01-008304/06/2021

Lane detection is an important component in automatic pilot system and advanced driving assistance system (ADAS). The stability and precision of lane detection will directly determine precision of control and lane plan of vehicles. Traditional mechanical vision lane detection approaches in complicated environment have the deficiencies of low precision and feature semantic description disabilities. But the lane detection depending on deep learning, e.g. SCNN network, LaneNet network, ENet-SAD network have imbalance problems of splitting precision and storage usage. This paper proposes an approach of high-efficiency deep learning Segnet-LSTM semantic segmentation network. This network structure is composed with encoding network and corresponding decoding networks. First, convolution and maximum pooling. The proposal extracts texture details of five images and stores searching position of maximum pooling. Meanwhile, it will implement interpolate processing to the lost points. Then, by up

Ye, Meng, Tan, Gangfeng, Tang, Jingning, Feng, Jiaming, Huang, Xin, Sun, Wenchao

Mathematical Programming for Optimization of Integrated Modular Avionics

2021-01-000903/02/2021

Every state-of-art aircraft has a complex distributed systems of avionics Line Replaceable Units/Modules (LRUs/LRMs), networked by several Data buses. These LRUs are becoming more complex because of an increasing number of new functions need to be integrated into avionics architecture. Moreover, the complexity of the overall avionics architecture and its impact on cable length, weight, power consumption, reliability and maintainability of avionics systems encouraged manufacturers to incorporate efficient avionics architectures in their aircraft design process. The evolution of avionics data buses and architectures have moved from distributed analog and federated architecture to digital integrated modular avionics (IMA). IMA architecture allows suppliers to develop their own LRUs/LRMs capable of specific features that can then be offered to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) as Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products. In the meantime, the aerospace industry has been investigating

Radaei, Mohammad

The Inside Story – SOSA: Sensor Open Systems Architecture

TBMG-3860802/18/2021

The following Q&A is a Sponsored Article.

Graphic Symbols for Aircraft Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems

AS1290C (Current)

02/12/2021

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) provides a system of graphic symbols and line codings that are intended primarily for usage in hydraulic and pneumatic system schematic diagrams for all types of aircraft.

A-6 Aerospace Actuation, Control and Fluid Power Systems

Graphic Symbols for Aircraft Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems

AS1290C-TEST-REC (Historical)02/12/2021

A-6 Aerospace Actuation, Control and Fluid Power Systems

Automatic Pilots (Turbine Powered Subsonic Aircraft)

AS440B (Current)

12/22/2020

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) covers automatic pilots intended for use on aircraft to automatically operate the primary and trim aerodynamic controls to maintain stable flight and/or to provide maneuvering about any of the three axes through servo control. Automatic control functions essential for primary or augmented flight control are excluded.

A-4 Aircraft Instruments Committee

Flight Director Equipment

AS8008A (Current)

12/22/2020

This Aerospace Standard covers Flight Director Equipments which display to the pilot a computed command for the operation of an aircraft in accordance with selected Mode(s). The term “Equipment” may include controls, displays, computers, etc. and may include sensors if furnished as a part of the Flight Director.

A-4 Aircraft Instruments Committee

Maximum-Allowable-Airspeed Instruments (Turbine Powered Subsonic Aircraft)

AS437B-TEST-REC (Historical)12/22/2020

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) covers one type of maximum-allowable-airspeed instrument which gives a continuous indication of both indicated airspeed and maximum allowable airspeed not exceeding 650 knots.

A-4 Aircraft Instruments Committee

Maximum-Allowable-Airspeed Instruments (Turbine Powered Subsonic Aircraft)

AS437B (Current)

12/22/2020

A-4 Aircraft Instruments Committee

Minimum Performance Standard Stall Warning Equipment

AS8014A (Current)

12/22/2020

This Aerospace Standard covers two basic Stall Warning Systems, one measures air flow and pressure distribution on the airfoil and the other measures the angle of airflow with respect to an arbitrary reference line. Each type of system includes, as a minimum, a sensor and the means for activating a device which warns the pilot of an impending stall.

A-4 Aircraft Instruments Committee

Flight Test Procedures for Static Pressure Systems Installed in Subsonic Transport Aircraft

ARP921B (Current)

12/22/2020

This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) covers the test procedures and equipment for performing flight testing on pitot-static systems installed in subsonic transport type aircraft.

A-4 Aircraft Instruments Committee

SAE TOMORROW TODAY: Impacts of Human Factors on Aviation Safety

1292112/17/2020

Are you willing to fly on the plane you maintained and inspected? Tony Janco, retired FAA safety inspector and former aviation mechanic, poses this question to anyone interested in entering the field as it highlights the importance and pressures of being the final barrier between ground and flight. In this compelling conversation spanning Janco's 45-year career in aircraft inspections, maintenance and policy, he illustrates the passion and precision required in the field and the small margin for human error when performing heavy checks on an aircraft before takeoff. Learn about the importance of aircraft instruments, the dangers of get-home-itis and the tricky things that can happen midflight that impact getting back on the ground safely.

Hineman, Marcie

High-Efficiency Megawatt Motor

TBMG-3813712/01/2020

Innovators at NASA Glenn Research Center have designed a High-Efficiency Megawatt Motor (HEMM), a wound-field partially superconducting machine. The HEMM implements a combination of superconducting and non-superconducting elements, along with an integrated cryocooler, to achieve some of the benefits of a superconducting motor without the need for an external cryogenic system.

Pilot-System Integration

ARP4033A (Current)

11/03/2020

A recommended pilot-system integration (i.e., crew interface and system integration) approach for concept development is described in Figure 1. The approach emphasizes the fundamental need for a top-down design methodology with particular focus on clear operational performance requirements and functional integration. While this document is primarily aimed at aircraft systems design and integration, the methodology is applicable to a wide range of design and integration situations. It is derived from well established human factors engineering design principles.

G-10 Executive Advisory Group

Human Engineering Recommendations for Data Link Systems

ARP4791B-TEST-REC (Historical)11/03/2020

This document sets forth general, functional, procedural, and design criteria and recommendations concerning human engineering of data link systems. The recommendations are based on limited evidence from empirical and analytic studies of simulated data link communication, and on experience from operational tests and actual use of data link. However, because data are not yet available to support recommendations on all potentially critical human engineering issues these recommendations necessarily go beyond the data link research and include requirements based on related research and human factors engineering practice. It is also recognized that evolution of these recommendations will be appropriate as experience with data link accumulates and new applications are implemented. This document focuses primarily on recommendations for data link communications between an air traffic specialist and a pilot, i.e., air traffic services communications, although some recommendations address use of

G-10 Executive Advisory Group

Human Interface Design Methodology for Integrated Display Symbology

ARP4155B-TEST-REC (Historical)11/03/2020

G-10 Executive Advisory Group

Human Interface Design Methodology for Integrated Display Symbology

ARP4155B (Current)

11/03/2020

G-10 Executive Advisory Group

Human Engineering Recommendations for Data Link Systems

ARP4791B (Current)

11/03/2020

G-10 Executive Advisory Group

Unsettled Topics Concerning Adopting Blockchain Technology in Aerospace

EPR2020021

10/30/2020

In the aerospace industry, competition is high and the need to ensure safety and security while managing costs is paramount. Furthermore, stakeholders—who gain the most by working together—do not necessarily trust each other. Now, mix that with changing enterprise technologies, management of historical records, and customized legacy systems. This issue touches all aspects of the aerospace industry, from frequent flyer miles to aircraft maintenance and drives tremendous inefficiency and cost.Technology that augments, rather than replaces, is needed to transform these complex systems into efficient, digital processes. Blockchain technology offers collaborative opportunities for solving some of the data problems that have long challenged the industry.This SAE EDGE™ Research Report by Rhonda D. Walthall examines how blockchain technology could impact the aerospace industry and addresses some of the unsettled concerns surrounding its implementation.{"uri":[{"xlink:href":"https://www.sae.org

Walthall, Rhonda

Comparative Analysis of Emergency Evasive Steering for Long Combination Vehicles

02-13-03-0018

10/10/2020

This study provides a simulation-based comparative analysis of the distance and time needed for long combination vehicles (LCVs) - namely, A-doubles with 28-, 33-, and 48-ft trailers - to safely exercise an emergency, evasive steering maneuver such as required for obstacle avoidance. The results are also compared with conventional tractor-semitrailers with a single 53-ft trailer. A multi-body dynamic model for each vehicle combination is developed in TruckSim® with an attempt to assess the last point to steer (LPTS) and evasive time (ET) at various highway speeds under both dry and wet road conditions. The results indicate that the minimum avoidance distance and time required for the 28-ft doubles vary from 206 ft (60 mph) to 312 ft (80 mph) and 2.3 s to 2.6 s, respectively. The required LPTS represents a 6% to 31% increase when compared with 53-ft semitrucks. When driving below 76 mph on a dry road and below 75 mph on a wet road, the 28-ft doubles exhibit LPTS and ET that are larger

Chen, Yang, Zhang, Zichen, Ahmadian, Mehdi

Aerospace Fluid Power - Contamination Sensitivity - Considerations for Establishing Test Procedures for Flight Control Actuators

ARP5941 (Current)10/09/2020

This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) describes the design conditions under which tests should be conducted to demonstrate satisfactory performance of a flight critical servo-actuator under the maximum allowable particulate contamination in the associated airplane hydraulic system. Additionally, this document also describes the recommended tests and the required acceptance criteria.

A-6B1 Hydraulic Servo Actuation Committee

COCKPIT DISPLAY SYSTEM INTERFACES TO USER SYSTEMS PART 1 AVIONICS INTERFACES, BASIC SYMBOLOGY, AND BEHAVIOR

ARINC661P1-8 (Current)09/18/2020

ARINC 661 defines logical interfaces to Cockpit Display Systems (CDS) used in all types of aircraft installations. The CDS provides graphical and interactive services to user applications within the flight deck environment. When combined with data from user applications, it displays graphical images to the flight deck crew. The document emphasizes the need for independence between aircraft systems and the CDS. This document defines the interface between the avionics equipment and display system graphics generators. This document does not specify the "look and feel" of any graphical information, and as such does not address human factors issues. These are defined by the airline flight operations community. Supplement 8 adds numerous changes and additions. Eleven new widgets are added, all related to 3D Maps. Seven new widget extensions. Metadata definitions (XML) for all widgets, extensions, events, symbols, and associated data types.

Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee

Development of a Secure Private Neural Network Capability

20AERP09_0409/01/2020

Machine Learning (ML) tools like Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have gained widespread popularity due to their ability to quickly and accurately perform discriminative tasks, such as object detection and classification. However, current implementations of this concept have several drawbacks. First, traditional DNNs require access to unprotected (unencrypted) data. Even if the data is secured and the ML tool is made compatible for use with encrypted data, the resulting operational performance is slowed to the point that it renders the approach intractable. Second, recent research has shown many DNNs are susceptible to white box (full access to the machine learning tool and operations) and black box (only access to system input and output) attacks, allowing adversaries to maliciously manipulate the ML tool's output. In its short history, this concept has been successfully applied to a broad spectrum of problems: speech and image recognition, medical imagery diagnostics, drug discovery

Development of a Secure Private Neural Network Capability

TBMG-3761409/01/2020

Operating System Software

TBMG-3760509/01/2020

Green Hills Software Santa Barbara, CA +1 805-965-0124

Lighting, Aircraft Interior, Installation of

AS18276B (Current)08/28/2020

This specification covers the installation of aircraft interior lighting for military aircraft.

A-20C Interior Lighting

CONTACTS, ELECTRICAL, CONNECTOR, SOCKET, CRIMP REMOVABLE (FOR AS81714 TERMINAL JUNCTION SYSTEM SERIES II)

AS39029/22E (Historical)08/25/2020

AE-8C1 Connectors Committee

ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF SOFTWARE BY CRATE (EDS CRATE)

ARINC827-1 (Current)08/10/2020

This standard describes the format for electronic distribution of aircraft software parts and other contents between aerospace business partners using a digital container referred to as an EDS crate. This EDS standard is intended to promote consistent, secure distribution of EDS content to any appropriate destination.

Avionics Maintenance Committee

SAE TOMORROW TODAY: Constant Innovation in Aviation

1290108/07/2020

As the innovation center for Airbus, Acubed is bringing the Silicon Valley approach to advancement to the aerospace industry. Mark Cousin, CEO of Acubed, joins host Grayson Brulte for an in-depth conversation on the aviation innovations that Acubed is working on to improve efficiency and safety. Mark shares with us the important developments that Acubed and Airbus have made over the past 10-15 years to help the organization achieve year-over-year efficiencies; how Acubed has evolved over the past five years to become a more targeted innovation center; and some of the specific innovations, including Fly by Wire, Project Wayfinder and ATOL, that demonstrate the importance of machine learning and AI to enable autonomy that will improve safety of commercial aviation, reduce costs and address the pilot shortage. He also gives a sneak peek at some of the current and future projects in the works at Acubed that will advance Airbus' vision for innovation, including unmanned traffic management

Hineman, Marcie

DATALINK GROUND SYSTEMS STANDARD AND INTERFACE SPECIFICATION (DGSS/IS)

ARINC620-10 (Current)07/31/2020

ARINC Specification 620 defines the interfaces between the Datalink Service Provider (DSP) and the aircraft, other ground-based datalink services, and users. The datalink ground system standard definition supports traditional ACARS and AOA protocols, as well as Media Independent Aircraft Messaging (MIAM) as defined by ARINC Specification 841. MIAM messages can be much larger than ACARS messages (5 MB versus 3.3 kB per message). Supplement 10 improves Controller-Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) by defining a “Deliver By (DB)” period that allows the DSP, that originated the message, to intercept and discard the message if it is not delivered by the specified time. Supplement 10 also adds a Media Advisory code for ACARS over IP (AoIP) indicating that an ACARS non Safety Services messages is being transferred over IP links. New Reason Codes are assigned for un-transmittable or undeliverable messages. ACARS Character set clarifications are also provided in Supplement 10.

Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee

INDUSTRY GUIDE FOR COMPONENT TEST DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT

ARINC625-4 (Current)07/27/2020

This standard provides guidance to those who develop avionics test programs and the source documentation on which they are based. This includes guidelines for all steps and phases within the TPS life cycle.

Avionics Maintenance Committee

VHF DIGITAL LINK (VDL) MODE 2 IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS

ARINC631-8 (Current)07/15/2020

This document describes the functions to be performed by airborne and ground components of the VDLM2 to successfully transfer messages from VHF ground networks to avionics systems on aircraft and vice versa where the data are encoded in a code and byte independent format. The compatibility of VDLM2 with OSI is established by defining a set of services and protocols that are in accordance with the OSI basic reference model. The compatibility with the ATN protocols is achieved by defining a set of interfaces between the VDLM2 subnetwork protocol specification and the Mobile Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Function (MSNDCF). The SNDCF is defined in the ICAO ATN SARPs.

Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee

Approach to Landing Guidance System for Transport Aircraft

ARP4102/12B (Current)06/11/2020

This document specifies requirements for an Approach to Landing Guidance System (ALGS) electronic device. This equipment shall display relative aircraft position and situation information for flight along precision three-dimensional paths within the appropriate coverage area. The precision three-dimensional path may be an ILS straight-in look-alike path or a complex, curved path. The requirements are applicable to electronic devices capable of receiving signals or other information from one or more sources, including but not limited to ILS, GNSS, or IRU inputs.

S-7 Flight Deck Handling Qualities Stds for Trans Aircraft

Navigation Measurement Software

TBMG-3699906/01/2020

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has developed FlashPose, a relative navigation measurement software and VHDL for spaceflight missions requiring vehicle-relative and terrain-relative navigation and control. FlashPose processes real-time or recorded range and intensity images from 3D imaging sensors, such as LiDARs, and compares them to known models of the target surfaces to output the position and orientation of the known target relative to the sensor coordinate frame. All algorithmic processing takes place in the software application, while custom FPGA firmware interfaces directly with the Ball Vision Navigation System (VNS) LiDAR and provides imagery to the algorithm.

Air Data Computer – Minimum Performance Standard

AS8002B (Current)

04/28/2020

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) covers air data computer equipment (hereinafter designated the computer) which when connected to sources of aircraft electrical power, static pressure, total pressure, outside air temperature, and others specified by the manufacturer (singly or in combination) provides some or all of the following computed air data output signals (in analog and/or digital form) which may supply primary and/or standby flight instruments: Pressure Altitude Pressure Altitude, Baro-Corrected Vertical Speed Calibrated Airspeed Mach Number Maximum Allowable Airspeed Over-speed Warning Total Air Temperature

A-4 Air Data Subcommittee

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