A Novel Method to Develop High Fidelity Laser Sensor Simulation Model for Evaluation of Air to Ground Weapon Algorithms of Combat Aircraft

  • Suresh Kumar Department of Aerospace Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology Campus, Anna University, Chennai - 600 044 http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0279-4425
  • K. Senthil Kumar Department of Aerospace Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology Campus, Anna University, Chennai - 600 044
  • N. N.S.S.R.K. Prasad Aeronautical Development Agency, Bengaluru - 560 017
Keywords: High fidelity flight simulator, Laser designation pod, Aircraft system, Environment simulation, Field of view, Air to ground weapon algorithms

Abstract

Successful release of any air to ground weapon from a combat aircraft is determined based on the positional parameters received from the sensors and the mission cues. Laser designated pod is one of the most sought weapon sensor, which gives the accurate data for Air to Ground weapon aiming. Laser designated pod being hardware intensive system, works with real world environment, it increases the development and integration effort towards finalising the weapon aiming algorithms and also pilot vehicle interface requirements. A novel method using mathematical models and the atmospheric error models is proposed to develop a high fidelity laser designated pod simulation model for functional and performance evaluation of weapon algorithms. The factors affecting the weapon trajectory computations are also considered in the sensor model outputs. The sensor model is integrated in the high fidelity flight simulator, which consists of both aircraft and Real world systems either as actual or simulated for close loop pilot evaluation. The behaviour of the sensor model is cross validated and fine-tuned with the actual sensor output and confirmed that the developed laser designated pod sensor simulation model meets all the requirement to test the air to ground weapons in the flight simulator.

Author Biographies

Suresh Kumar, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology Campus, Anna University, Chennai - 600 044

He received his MS in system software from BITS Pilani. Presently he is working as Scientist/Engineer ‘G’ in Avionics Weapon system directorate, Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA). His fields of interest are combat flight simulation, pilot vehicle interface design and avionics system design.
Contribution in the current study : Data collection, analysis, design, development and implementation.

K. Senthil Kumar, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology Campus, Anna University, Chennai - 600 044

He received his ME (Avionics) and PhD (Avionics) from Anna University, Chennai. He is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and also the Director i/c of Centre for Aerospace Research, MIT campus, Anna University, Chennai. His fields of interest are design and development of UAVs, Aircraft Simulation, systems modelling and simulation, avionics systems, aerospace guidance and control.
Contribution in the current study : Overall system architecture, model validation and testing.

N. N.S.S.R.K. Prasad, Aeronautical Development Agency, Bengaluru - 560 017

Dr N.N.S.S.R.K. Prasad did his BTech (Electronics & Communication Engineering) and MTech (Controls & Instrumentation) and PhD (Electrical Engineering) from IIT- Bombay. He worked on the projects like MST Radar, Integrated Opto-electronics program and Light Combat Aircraft. Presently working as Scientist/Engineer ‘H’ and Technology Director (LCA Payloads) in Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) for LCA project. He has more than 100 publications in journals, conferences, symposiums.
Contribution in the current study: Design and development methodologies and evaluation.

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Published
2019-01-10
How to Cite
Kumar, S., Kumar, K., & Prasad, N. (2019). A Novel Method to Develop High Fidelity Laser Sensor Simulation Model for Evaluation of Air to Ground Weapon Algorithms of Combat Aircraft. Defence Science Journal, 69(1), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.14429/dsj.69.12994
Section
Aeronautical Systems