The Development Of Virtual Aircraft Instruments Based On VAPS

Flight simulator is a typical human-in-the-loop simulation system and an important device for simulating the flight's flying using ground device. As an effective method for flight training, it has been widely used in today's international aviation industry while the aircraft Instrument System which is used to display the airplane data condition and flight parameter is an important component of the flight simulator. Therefore it can influence the fidelity and variety of flight training, and is one of the important criteria for determining whether a flight simulator is advanced.For the purpose of improving the development level of the traditional flight simulator, and the quest for pushing our country's aviation forward, the CAAC decided to embark into the research direction of developing the simulator, and entrust both the Harbin Institute of Technology and Civil Aviation University of China to complete it. This paper is a part of this research direction. Some techniques related with the development of the Virtual Aircraft Instrument System in flight simulator have been studied here. It also researches on some methods to successfully complete the system and ensures efficient system operation and hand over at the right time.The fast development of computer science and electron technology make the appearance of Virtual Aircraft Instrument System that highly integrates the digital information from airborne devices possible and the cockpit layout could be easily changed while the pilot can get flight information more quickly and control the aircraft more efficiently. This paper lays much emphasis on the research and development of the Virtual Aircraft Instrument System software. It has conducted an analysis of the Virtual Aircraft Instrument System, finds out the characteristics of the system in flight simulator, and makes clear the data relationship between the Virtual Aircraft Instrument System and other subsystems in flight simulator,including the function request as well as performance request for the system.With professional software VAPS design the appearance of Virtual Aircraft Instrument uses ATN (Augment Transition Network model) to develop the...