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Software Capabilities

Freddie - The Federated Airspace Management Framework (Freddie) is a NASA software implementation of an advanced, collaborative, digital, and automated approach to managing air traffic within the airspace. Extends NASA’s UTM Core capabilities and harmonizes algorithms and concepts within new UTM-inspired aviation domains such as Urban Air Mobility, High-E Traffic Management.

Air Traffic Management Test Bed - Highly scalable, inter-connected simulation and modeling platform to evaluate current and emerging vehicles and airspace management technologies.

Sherlock Data Warehouse – Enterprise platform for reliable ATM data collection, processing, archival, and delivery leveraging structured Big Data technologies and a tool suite for machine learning and data science. The data includes years of NAS-wide flight, weather, traffic management and facility report data.

WorldWind - NASA-developed, publicly-available, highly-scalable open-source software development kit for assisting developers in the creation of geographical information systems to integrate, analyze, and display a wide-range of airspace, surveillance, weather and other ATM data.

NASA Langley Research Center

Flight Simulation Facilities Overview

Cockpit Motion Facility (CMF)

• Motion System

– 6 degree-of-freedom synergistic motion system

– 76-inch leg stroke

– 22,000 pounds maximum payload

• State-of-the-art motion cueing algorithms and advanced algorithms

• Facility can support simultaneous operation of two fixed based simulators and one motion based simulator

– Research Flight Deck (RFD) Simulator

– Integration Flight Deck (IFD) Simulator

– Generic Flight Deck (GFD) Simulator

– Available space for a 4th simulator

• Any of the simulators can be moved to the motion platform for motion simulation

• State-of-the-art Infrastructure

– Real-time computers for aerospace vehicle and environment modeling

– Display and graphics computers for flight deck instrumentation

– High performance visual scene image generation computer systems for out-the-window scenery

– Fiber optic video distribution

– High speed fiber optic data communications

– Hydraulics and power systems

• System Integration Laboratory (SIL) for hardware-in-the-loop testing and evaluation

UAS-Systems Integration and Validation Lab (SIVL) HWITL Simulation Capability

• Avionics systems and software integration & deployment

– Rapid integration of user-provided Simulink models or algorithms for test and evaluation

– Generic/common interfaces with servos, sensors, comm links for seamless integration with users-provided avionics

– Failure modes and effects, latency, and propagation

– Reliability and safety studies

• Real-time visualization of data, traffic, and test environments

• Extensive and reliable data/video collection and playback capabilities for event reconstruction

• Monte Carlo and batch testing utilizing models of

UAV vehicle dynamics, flight controls, engine, avionics, winds, & turbulence

• Multiple research were supported

– Autonomous systems integration testing with flight computers and hardware for subsequent flight tests

– Collision detection, avoidance, and control of UAS during Visual Line of Sight operation.

– Avionics and software interface for autopilot, communications, and data collection for UAV such as GL-10 and Learn-to-Fly airplane models

– Hardware-in-the-loop testing, ground station visualization software, and Monte Carlo simulations for determining performance and safety requirements for UAV operating in restricted “geo-fencing” containment environment

– Autonomy Operating Systems for UAS for prognostics decision making in contingency management

SAFEGUARD Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing

UTM Bat-4 flight tests

FDC Flight Tests

SAFEGUARD Ground Control Testing Before Deployment at Gantry Learn-to-Fly

Autonomous System Integration Testing

Systems Integration Lab Human-in-the-Loop Simulator integrates with System Integration Lab for Hardware-in-the-loop, End- to-End Mission Simulation

Hardware Systems for testing include Avionics; Command, Control, Communications, and Information (C3I);

Audio, Voice, and Video

Equipment interfaced directly with simulator facilities High speed communications network –

Ethernet and SCRAMNet Video and audio distribution Full simulation of actual vehicle signal busses (ARINC, discretes, analogs, serial, telemetry)

Lab has communication and navigation capabilities via roof mounted VHF blade, L-band, and GPS antenna

Virtually any avionics hardware or protocol can be integrated into lab Flight management computers Flight control computers