Alignment Detection of High Precision Head-Up Guidance Systems
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Project Overview
“Accuracy” is a term that can have very different implications depending on your environment. Sometimes accuracy is only preferred as the best solution, and other times the slightest variance in accuracy can be the difference between life or death.
Above is the Top Level Block Diagram of the system.
In avionics heads-up displays, the latter is the case. Imagine a pilot of a commercial airliner coming in to a runway with 150 passengers onboard, and his display is just misaligned enough to tell him he is 200 feet off the ground when he is really only 50 feet from impact.
Accuracy is very important in these systems. Very fine tuned mechanical and electrical systems are required to ensure the accuracy of heads-up displays in avionics, and your task is to design and build a very fast, reliable, and repeatable system to accomplish this task using magnetic position sensing.
The electrical design will require sensor interfacing, microcontroller design, analog to digital interfacing, feedback loop control algorithms, and interfacing with a mechanical team to construct the final system.
Objectives
Electromechanical prototype demonstrating best possible solution based on gathered research; live demonstration utilizing functional PCB assembly and mechanical system mockup. Documentation summarizing research methodology and results.
Motivations
Precision flight path control requires precise delivery of aircraft information in a conformal fashion (earth-centered) on a head-up display.
Above is a diagram of the main alignment measuring system that includes a magnet and magnetic position sensor attached to the heads-up displays mechanics.
In partnership with Collins Aerospace
