RU2276328C1 - Sighting-navigating complex for multipurpose aircraft - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: measuring instruments.

SUBSTANCE: complex comprises set of multipurpose indicators whose inputs and outputs are interconnected through the information channel, indicator mounted on the windscreen, TV camera, members for operative control, assembly of view-sighting means, assembly of flight-navigation means, portable storage for initial data, system for control of means of counteraction, and computing system. The computing system comprises computing-logical units of combined data base which are interconnected by their inputs and outputs via the bus of information exchange, unit for generating flight-navigation parameters, generating sighting-navigation parameters, generating displayed information, and input-output and control of information exchange.

EFFECT: expanded functional capabilities.

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Description

The invention relates to the field of aeronautical engineering, namely, to complexes of avionics, providing navigation and guidance of the aircraft and the use of countermeasures.

In the closest analogue given in the book of Babich O.A. "Information Processing in Navigation Complexes", Moscow, Mechanical Engineering, 1991, pp. 6-16, 391-507, an airborne sighting and navigation system containing a set of multi-function indicators, an indicator on the windshield, an in-camera television camera, and organs is presented operational control, a set of survey and sighting tools (visual, optoelectronic, radio-technical, etc.), a set of navigation and piloting tools (inertial, air, satellite, radio-technical, etc.), portable carrier ref data, a control system of countermeasures, a computer system that provides reception, transmission and information exchange between the equipment of the complex through the channel of information exchange. The computing system contains computational logic input-output and information exchange control modules, a combined database, formation of navigation and flight parameters, formation of sight and flight parameters, formation of displayed information, interconnected along the highway of computational information exchange. The complex provides the formation of navigation, flight and aiming information, its presentation on multi-functional indicators, aircraft control through operational control bodies and the use of countermeasures through the countermeasure management system.

The disadvantages of the closest analogue include:

- limited opportunities for exhibiting course facilities, especially on a moving and oscillating base (aircraft carrier);

- the actual impossibility of organizing inter-aircraft navigation and group operations in tight battle formations;

- inefficient work of the crew in terms of using the resources of countermeasures in difficult situations of military operations.

The technical result of the invention is to expand the functionality of the complex and, as a result of this, increase the efficiency of the use of multifunctional aircraft equipped with this sighting and navigation system.

This result is achieved by the fact that the aiming and navigation complex of a multifunctional aircraft, containing a set of multifunctional indicators interconnected by inputs and outputs through an information exchange channel, an indicator on the windshield, an in-camera television camera, operational controls, a set of sighting and sighting tools, a set of navigation and flight means, a portable carrier of source data, a control system of countermeasures, a computer system including inter connected by the inputs and outputs on the highway of computational information exchange, the computational and logical modules of the integrated database, the formation of navigation and aerobatic parameters, the formation of aiming aerobatic parameters, the formation of displayed information, input-output and information exchange control, the other input-output of which is input-output computing system, is additionally equipped with computed-logical modules for virtual control of equipment introduced into the composition of the computing system Inertial-satellite mode of formation of the relative coordinates of the aircraft’s location, exhibition at the heading on a moving and oscillating base, optimal use of resources interconnected with each other and with the computational and logical modules of the integrated database, the formation of navigation and flight parameters, the formation of aim and flight parameters, formation of the displayed information, input-output and information exchange management along the highway of computational information exchange.

The drawing shows a block diagram of the sighting and navigation system of a multifunctional aircraft, containing:

1 - a set of multifunctional indicators MFI,

2 - indicator on the windshield of the ILS,

3 - television camera zakabinnoy review TKO,

4 - operational management bodies of the educational institution,

5 - a set of sighting and sighting equipment COPS,

6 - a set of navigation and flight means KNPS,

7 - portable media source data PNID,

8 - control system countermeasures SUSP,

9 - channel information exchange KIO

10 - computing system of the aircraft, including the following computational logic modules (VLM)

11 - VLM integrated database HBS,

12 - VLM formation of navigation and flight parameters FNPP,

13 - VLM input-output and information exchange management WSIS,

14 - VLM formation of sighting and flight parameters of the FPPP,

15 - VLM formation of the displayed information FOI,

16 - VLM virtual control equipment VUO,

17 - VLM inertial-satellite mode of formation of the relative coordinates of the location of the aircraft ISOK,

18 - VLM exhibitions at the rate on a moving and oscillating base VKKO,

19 - VLM optimal use of OIR resources,

20 - highway computing information exchange MVIO.

Information interconnection of all equipment of the complex is carried out according to KIO 9, which includes electrical, mechanical, electromechanical, natural communications, as well as interconnections with on-board equipment - automatic control system, communication system, ship navigation and guidance system in aircraft carrier based.

IFI 1 contains “n” multifunction indicators with color liquid crystal displays (LCDs). The number "n" and the size of the LCD are determined by the tactical and technical requirements of each type of multifunctional single or double aircraft equipped with this sighting and navigation system.

All "n" multifunctional indicators, depending on the operating modes set automatically by the aircraft 10 or by pressing the pilot (operator) of the softkeys (touch buttons), can function in the same or different modes, for example, "tactical situation indicator", "complex indicator informational alarm "," indicator of sighting and sighting means ".

ILS 2 is a standard collimator color or monochrome indicator for displaying on a translucent screen the navigation, aiming and tactical information coming from the aircraft 10 against the background of the surrounding space visible through the windshield, the image of which is recorded by TCR 3, while the image from TCR 3 can be transmitted through KIO 9, WSIS 13, MVIO 20, FOI 15 on the screen of one of the IFIs 1.

OOU 4 include control knobs for mechanization of the aircraft and the engine with trigger controls for sighting tools on landmarks.

COPS 5 includes, for example, optical-location, laser, sighting (helmet-mounted target designation system, night vision goggles) means of viewing the environment, fixing, identification and tracking of air and ground targets, while target designation parameters and video frames through KIO 9, WSIS 13 come to FNPP 12, FPPP 14.

KNPS 6 includes various (inertial, radio engineering, satellite, air) sensors and systems that measure the parameters of the aircraft during ground, aircraft carrier training and in flight, which from the input-output of the KNPS 6 through KIO 9 enter the input-output of aircraft 10 and through VVUMO 13, MVIO 20 in FNPP 12, FPPP 14, FOI 15.

PNID 7 is a carrier of flight missions with long-term reprogrammable memory (such as standard flash cards) prepared at ground-based flight mission planning points. The data of parameters of each flight and initial data for equipment, set goals, reference points, used countermeasures and other data for performing a flight according to plan and in case of emergency situations entered from PNID 7 are received from PNID 7 input-output through KIO 9, aircraft input-output 10, WSIS 13, MVIO 20, HBS 11.

SUSP 8 carries out the preparation and use of countermeasures, the issuance of data on the status of countermeasures on board, their preparation, control, calculated and emergency discharge; Interaction of SUSP 8 with aircraft 10 is carried out according to KIO 9 through WSIS 13.

BC 10 is a computing system based on digital computers of monoblock or multi-block diversity design, while the computational logic modules (FNPP 12, FPPP 14, FOI 15, VUO 16, ISOK 17, VKKO 18, OIR 19) are executed according to standard computing schemes based on processors and storage devices; HBS 11 is performed on a standard long-term storage device that stores operational data received from PNID 7, and long-term data of stationary situations of combat and training flights; WSIS 13 through one input-output receives, converts and transfers data to the interacting equipment through the input-output of aircraft 10 according to KIO 9, and the other input-output of WSIS 13 is connected to MVIO 20, which carries out information exchange between all computing and logical modules of aircraft 10 .

In FNPP 12, complex processing of information from KNPS 6, KOPS 5, PNID 7, OBD 11 is carried out and navigation and aerobatic parameters are generated that are received via MVIO 20 from FNPP 12 to FOI 15.

In FPPP 14, complex processing of information from COPS 5, KNPS 6, PNID 7, OBD 11 is carried out and sighting and flight parameters are generated, arriving at MVOI 20 with FPPP 14 in FOI 15.

In FOI 15, according to the data obtained by MVIO 20 from OBD 11, FNPP 12, FPPP 14 and from interacting equipment through KIO 9, WSIS 13, generalized mnemo frames of functional, alphanumeric, television information are formed, if necessary combined with a map of the area (including aeronautical) and the presentation of a multifunctional control panel. The formed mnemo-frames of images at the current time from the input and output of the FOI 15 through MVIO 20, WSIS 13, KIO 9 are sent to MFI 1 and ILS 2 for display on screens for the decision of the crew to work with the equipment of the aircraft and the complex through the framing screens of multifunction indicators controls (touch buttons, button keys) and OOU 4.

In conjunction with OBD 11, OOU 4, MFI 1 in the VUO 16 are carried out:

- organization of presentation at MFI 1 of various types of electromechanical devices with displayed information;

- Representation of the back-up space at all MFIs 1 with MSW 3, including the possibility of representing parts of the back-up space at various MFIs 1 with the aim of organizing a single type of back-up space reproducing the effect of a transparent cabin;

- combination of various types of terrain maps with information frames on MFI 1 in the mode of survey of the earth's surface;

- combination of a virtual multifunctional control panel with information frames on the MFI 1 to control and monitor actions in the pilot or operator operation mode without taking their hands off OOU 4.

When the aircraft as part of the aircraft carrier-ship connection in ISOC 17 according to the coordinates of the location of the aircraft K _with from the inertial-satellite system from the KNPS 6 and the data of the coordinates of the location of the ship, obtained through communication on KIO 9 from the ship’s inertial-satellite system in a single time and in connection with the same combinations of satellites, the relative coordinates of the aircraft’s location relative to the ship K _c = K _k -K _{s are formed} , with the same systematic errors in the parameters K _k and K _s in K _{s to} are subtracted and the exact values of K _ck the possibility of operational interaction, inter-aircraft navigation, group piloting and military operations.

When basing an aircraft equipped with this complex on an aircraft carrier in preparation for take-off, including during the movement of an aircraft carrier (moving and oscillating base), inertial-satellite communications are received from the ship navigation system via KIO 9, WWIS 13, MVIO 20 to VKKO 18 coordinates of the ship’s current location K _k , its geographic course Ψ _k and the viewing angle Ψ _{ko of} an external landmark, the range of D _ko to the same external landmark (including a moving one, for example, any ship as part of an aircraft carrier escort), measured e system guidance and target designation of an aircraft carrier.

From means of KNPS 6 and COPS 5 through KIO 9, WSIS 13, MVIO 20 in VKKO 18, the inertial-satellite coordinates of the aircraft installed on the ship K _s and the angle Ψ _from sighting the same reference point by means of COPS 5 of the aircraft, according to the data received from VKKO, are received 18, the relative coordinates of K _{cc of the} aircraft and the angle of the geographical course of the plane are formed ( _к = F (K _ck , Ψ _ko , Ψ _k , Ψ _co , D _ko ), which from the input-output of VKKO 18 through MVOI 20 enters FNPP 12 and FOI 15 for solving navigation problems and presenting as part of personnel at IFI 1 for pre-launch preparation ki, start, running start on the deck, taking off from the deck of an aircraft carrier and a further flight of the aircraft.

From countermeasures through SUSP 8, KIO 9, WSIS 13, MVIO 20 in OIR 19 receives data on the availability and condition of countermeasures at the current time; from COPS 5 through KIO 9, WSIS 13, MVIO 20 to OIR 19 receives target designation data of the quickly detected target and its characteristics; in cooperation with OBD 11, according to the data received in OIR 19, an optimal set of countermeasures against the target is formed to ensure its destruction or escape from the target if the set of countermeasures remaining on board the aircraft at the time of interaction does not ensure effective destruction of the target.

Thus, the examples of technical implementation show the achievement of a technical result. The computational logic modules VUO 16, ISOK 17, VKKO 18, OIR 19, additionally introduced into the composition of the aircraft 10, provide a significant expansion of the functionality of the aiming and navigation complex of the equipment of a multifunctional aircraft carrier and ground-based.

Claims (1)

The sighting and navigation complex of a multifunctional aircraft carrier and ground-based, containing a set of multifunctional indicators interconnected by inputs and outputs through an information exchange channel, an indicator on the windshield, a television camera of an in-depth review, operational controls, a set of sighting and sighting equipment, a set of navigation and flight equipment, portable source data carrier, countermeasure management system, computer system including inter Along with the inputs and outputs on the highway of computational information exchange, the computational and logical modules of the integrated database, the formation of navigation and aerobatic parameters, the formation of aiming aerobatic parameters, the formation of displayed information, input-output and information exchange control, the input-output of the last of which is input- the output of a computer system, characterized in that it is additionally equipped with computed-logical virtual modules introduced into the composition of the computer system control of equipment, inertial-satellite mode of formation of the relative coordinates of the aircraft’s location, an exhibition at the heading on a moving and oscillating base, optimal use of resources interconnected with each other and with computational and logical modules of the integrated database, formation of navigation and flight parameters, formation of aiming and flight parameters for the formation of the displayed information, input-output and information exchange control along the computational and information exchange.