A NEW ALTERNATIVE AIR DATA COMPUTATION METHOD BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Air Data Computer (ADC) is an important equipment of the aircraft and the performance of the ADC directly affects the safety and efficiency of the flight. The ADC uses sensors to get small amounts of original messages, such as dynamic pressure, static pressure, and total temperature and computes the...

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Main Authors: İlke Türkmen, Seda Arık
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Turkish Air Force Academy 2017-01-01
Series:Havacılık ve Uzay Teknolojileri Dergisi
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Online Access:http://www.jast.hho.edu.tr/JAST/index.php/JAST/article/view/24/17
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description Air Data Computer (ADC) is an important equipment of the aircraft and the performance of the ADC directly affects the safety and efficiency of the flight. The ADC uses sensors to get small amounts of original messages, such as dynamic pressure, static pressure, and total temperature and computes the air data parameters such as airspeed, pressure altitude, Mach number, static air temperature etc. that have fundamental importance for flight control systems and navigation systems. When ADC failure occurs; there is no alternative way to compute air data parameters in the aircraft. In order to overcome this problem, in this paper, an alternative air data computation method based on artificial neural networks (ANN) is presented. The data set used to train proposed neural model is obtained from the Digital Flight Data Acquisition Unit (DFDAU) of a commercial Boeing 737-400 type aircraft. Simulation results clearly show that the proposed neural method can be used as an alternative air data computation method when ADC failure. The proposed method also provides simple and high accuracy method for computation of the air data parameters instead of traditional nonlinear ADC equations.
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spelling doaj.art-7eb5527b8be04a6ebbf0db057678fe3d2023-02-15T16:18:27ZengTurkish Air Force AcademyHavacılık ve Uzay Teknolojileri Dergisi1304-04481304-04482017-01-011012129A NEW ALTERNATIVE AIR DATA COMPUTATION METHOD BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKSİlke Türkmen0Seda Arık1Erciyes UniversityErciyes UniversityAir Data Computer (ADC) is an important equipment of the aircraft and the performance of the ADC directly affects the safety and efficiency of the flight. The ADC uses sensors to get small amounts of original messages, such as dynamic pressure, static pressure, and total temperature and computes the air data parameters such as airspeed, pressure altitude, Mach number, static air temperature etc. that have fundamental importance for flight control systems and navigation systems. When ADC failure occurs; there is no alternative way to compute air data parameters in the aircraft. In order to overcome this problem, in this paper, an alternative air data computation method based on artificial neural networks (ANN) is presented. The data set used to train proposed neural model is obtained from the Digital Flight Data Acquisition Unit (DFDAU) of a commercial Boeing 737-400 type aircraft. Simulation results clearly show that the proposed neural method can be used as an alternative air data computation method when ADC failure. The proposed method also provides simple and high accuracy method for computation of the air data parameters instead of traditional nonlinear ADC equations.http://www.jast.hho.edu.tr/JAST/index.php/JAST/article/view/24/17Air data parametersair data computerartificial neural networks
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Seda Arık
A NEW ALTERNATIVE AIR DATA COMPUTATION METHOD BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Havacılık ve Uzay Teknolojileri Dergisi
Air data parameters
air data computer
artificial neural networks
title A NEW ALTERNATIVE AIR DATA COMPUTATION METHOD BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
title_full A NEW ALTERNATIVE AIR DATA COMPUTATION METHOD BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
title_fullStr A NEW ALTERNATIVE AIR DATA COMPUTATION METHOD BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
title_full_unstemmed A NEW ALTERNATIVE AIR DATA COMPUTATION METHOD BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
title_short A NEW ALTERNATIVE AIR DATA COMPUTATION METHOD BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
title_sort new alternative air data computation method based on artificial neural networks
topic Air data parameters
air data computer
artificial neural networks
url http://www.jast.hho.edu.tr/JAST/index.php/JAST/article/view/24/17
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