VMS real-time distributed simulation system design

Dong Wang, Quan Pan, Jinwen Hu, Chunhui Zhao, Zhao Xu, Hua Lan

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Abstract

Vehicle Management System (VMS) is onboard real-time network, which ensures the flight safety and economy by scheduling and managing the onboard resources. With the help of computers, local area network (LAN), simulation software and real-time operation system, we build a distributed computer simulation platform to simulate this onboard network. In this paper, we present a Simulink/RTX/Reflective memory card-based design solution for VMS distributed simulation platform, which is discussed at length in the two aspects of software design and hardware network establishment. We use the Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) solution to model VMS in Simulink and generate real-time C code for RTX operation system. We realize the inter-process communication (IPC) and synchronization by shared memory mechanism. The reflective memory (RFM) is used to build a network for communication and synchronization among computer cluster. We test and validate this system by simulating the whole flight process of an airfreighter with real aerodynamic parameters. The simulation results show every module in this simulation system works normally. It meets the engineering need in practice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 13th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA 2017
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1054-1059
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538626795
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Aug 2017
Event13th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA 2017 - Ohrid, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
Duration: 3 Jul 20176 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA
ISSN (Print)1948-3449
ISSN (Electronic)1948-3457

Conference

Conference13th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA 2017
Country/TerritoryMacedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
CityOhrid
Period3/07/176/07/17

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