Accession Number:
ADA101412
Title:
A Continuously Reconfiguring Multi-Microprocessor Flight Control System.
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. 1 Aug 79-30 Apr 81,
Corporate Author:
AIR FORCE WRIGHT AERONAUTICAL LABS WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1981-05-01
Pagination or Media Count:
150.0
Abstract:
Recent research at the US Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories Flight Dynamics Lab has resulted in the development of a promising microprocessor-based flight control system design. This system is characterized by a collection of cooperatively autonomous distributed microcomputers interconnected by an arbitrary number of common serial multiplex busses. Each processor in the system independently determines its assignments using a simple algorithm that dynamically redistributes system functions from processor to processor in a never-ending process of reconfiguration. This approach offers several benefits in terms of system reliability, and the architecture in general incorporates many state-of-the-art features which promise improved system throughput, expandability, and above all, ease of programming.
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Subject Categories:
- Computer Programming and Software
- Computer Hardware
- Computer Systems