Design and Development of a Fly By Wire System Mock Up for Avionics System Design Lab

Project Title

Design and Development of a Fly By Wire System Mock Up for Avionics System Design Lab

Project Area of Specialization Wearables and ImplantableProject Summary

This project aims to design and develop a Mock Up of a typical Fly By Wire System of a modern day aircraft.

This Mockup will include complete chain from Inceptor to Control surface and also show the control surface response & aircraft attitude on LCD Display.

We will have to develop the complete model using Matlab / Simulink (Simscape)

An airplane model of wing section and aft fuselage will be used to demonstrate control surface movement. The control surface actuation will be in response to a simulated aerodynamic environment.

All control axis channels will implement Quadruplex level redundancies.

We will have to develop the complete hardware for all three control axis after developing all simulations,

This project aims to design and develop a Mock Up of a typical Fly By Wire System of a modern day aircraft.

This Mockup will include complete chain from Inceptor to Control surface and also show the control surface response & aircraft attitude on LCD Display.

We will have to develop the complete model using Matlab / Simulink (Simscape)

An airplane model of wing section and aft fuselage will be used to demonstrate control surface movement. The control surface actuation will be in response to a simulated aerodynamic environment.

All control axis channels will implement Quadruplex level redundancies.

We will have to develop the complete hardware for all three control axis after developing all simulations,

Project Objectives

• Understand working of Fly by Wire Control System
• Simulation of FBW System
• Implementation of Hardware

Project Implementation Method

In this project we will have to design a mock up Fly by Wire system. First complete simulation will be developed. In simulation, a potentiometer will be attached to provide different values for the input. Using Micro-controllers the analog data will be converted to digital form using ADC (Analog to digital converter). This data will be used to change the position of the motor attached with the micro-controller. DAC (digital to analog converter) will be used to convert digital data to analog on the output side. We will also attach a monitoring loop using another micro-controller. Monitoring loop will ensure safe operation envelope by considering different factors such as angle of attack, altitude, speed and current position of control surface (motor). If applied input is not in safe operation envelope, Monitoring loop will decrease the angle of deflection of control surface (motor) accordingly .After developing the whole simulation, the same process will be performed on hardware.

Initially projects covers the one control surface of the aircraft but after developing the basics, same process will be used for the two other control surfaces,

Benefits of the Project

The mock up will provide a very useful test setup for students to learn and experiment FBW systems. The set up could even be used for flight control related research work in post graduate programs.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Fully functional Hardware Mock Up

Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry EducationOther IndustriesCore Technology Wearables and ImplantablesOther TechnologiesSustainable Development Goals Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	93900
Arduino boards	Equipment	20	1400	28000
NodeMCU	Equipment	4	1250	5000
Servo motors	Equipment	6	1500	9000
STM32	Equipment	6	1450	8700
Raspberry pi	Equipment	4	1400	5600
Frame setup	Miscellaneous	1	10000	10000
3 axis joystick	Equipment	3	2700	8100
PIC microcontroller	Equipment	4	1400	5600
PCB sheet	Equipment	19	100	1900
TFT LCD Display	Equipment	4	2500	10000
16x2 LCD Display	Equipment	500	4	2000