RESEARCH AND MEASURING CAPABILITIES OF THE SYSTEM-INTEGRATION LABORATORY EQUIPMENT TO OPTIMIZE INTEGRATED AVIONICS SYSTEMS

The paper has been intended to present research tools used at ITWL to activate and test hardware and software implemented in the integrated avionics systems. Particular attention has been paid to the research stand (built under the R&D project of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education) intended to optimize avionics systems integrated with digital data buses employed (according to, among other things, MIL-1553B and ARINC-429 standards). Specialized research equipment/test devices used to test software, including- apart from other things- test-patterns generators (within the range of display capability of the secondary head-up display (SHUD)) and information efficiency testers (for the SHUD and up-front control panel (UFCP) thereof) have also been presented. The architecture of a Sextant Avionique’s STRATUS-type navigation system, engineering accomplishment of the laboratory stand, the laboratory equipment to optimise integrated avionics systems on the digital data bus MIL-STD-1553B, research capabilities of the laboratory stand and equipment to optimize the integrated avionics system, laboratory stand’s panels used in the process of integration, additional research tools for the optimisation of the integrated avionics system, exemplary research tools used to optimise software of the integrated avionics system: the SHUD/UFCP tester), and the Multi-function Display (MFD) tester are presented in the paper.