U. Strasilla (USA)
Aerospace, Real Time Control, Adaptive Control, Simulation, Terrorist Prevention, Automatic Landing
The purpose of this project is prevention of airplanes being hijacked by placing them into a "safe mode". If terrorists threaten to overtake an airplane, either the pilot may put the plane into an automatic mode by the push of a button, or, if that is not possible, the plane will switch itself into that mode, once it senses that it is forced to fly outside of the envelope of a preplanned flight. The plane's actual position determined by a Global Positioning System (GPS) is constantly monitored and checked whether it is within a predetermined corridor. If the instrumentation senses that the corridor is penetrated, then it will search a computer-based library to find a suitable airport for an emergency landing. Routinely vectors to the airport will be calculated and the plane will steer itself onto that vector. In the vicinity of the airport a landing sequence will be initiated to allow a safe landing. LabView, a graphical programming language, is used to implement the software. This paper will address the software issues and hardware implementation.
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