Implementation of an integrated test bed for avionics system development

Abstract

An integrated test environment is required to test functions for development of avionics systems. In this paper we introduce an integrated test bed system which utilizes variety functions of the commercial flight simulator X-Plane and the model-based programming language LabView. The test system generates the flight data from X-Plane which linked a running gear and input the data to a display function as 3D map using Google Earth. Our proposed system could drive the flight operation in real time using generated flight data. We could trace the flying route of the simulated data based on the visualized results. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.