1. Integrated Avionics Systems
AOE 4065 – Aircraft Design
AIAA - Team #6 - 10/5/06
John Zimmer
Matt Stahr

2. What are Integrated Aircraft Avionics?
To pilot: all coordinated information is available from a single source
To software engineer: full access to shared data about situation, mission, and systems
To hardware designer: systems as a single unit with ample bandwidth to support processing

3. Avionics Systems Navigation Communications Electronic Warfare
Flight Control
Displays

4. Fully Integrated Northrop Grumman AMMC
Courtesy Northrop Grumman

5. Navigational Systems Radar Weather/terrain monitoring
Air traffic tracking
GPS
Inertial reference systems
i.e. Honeywell Primus Epic INAV and Northrop Grumman LTN-101E GNADIRU

6. Communications Systems
Radio receivers/transceivers
Voice-to-data
Digital messaging
Satellite communications
Courtesy Northrop Grumman

7. Electronic Warfare Systems
IFF (Identification of Friend or Foe)
Jamming and countermeasures
Weapons management
Target sighting/tracking
Defense
Courtesy

8. Flight Control Systems
Autopilot - Controls Altitude, Attitude and Heading
Measurements of position, angular velocities, and linear accelerations in all degrees of freedom
i.e. Honeywell Primus 1000, Primus 2000, and KFC 225
Courtesy Honeywell

9. Display Systems HUD (Heads Up Display) HDD (Head Down Display)
HMD (Head Mounted Display)
All instrumentation
and gauges
Courtesy Rockwell Collins

10. Where We Have Been
Courtesy

11. Where We Are Going
Mitigation/elimination of radiation and electromagnetic effects on avionics
Slowing semiconductor wear out in devices
More progressive form of flight planning
Greater integration of in-flight data with ground systems
Projects worked on by: Boeing, Honeywell, Smith’s Aerospace, and Goodrich Aerospace as well as others.

12. Sources

13. Questions?