Aerospace

REDUCING FLIGHT TEST CYCLE TIME FROM WEEKS TO HOURS

Immediate data feedback allowed flight engineers to make critical adjustments shortly after each test, enabling multiple tests per day. Previous test programs required week-long delays between flights for data analysis.

ENERGY HARVESTING HELICOPTER ROTOR HUM SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

Development of a helicopter on-rotor HUM system powered by vibration energy harvesting

Energy Efficient Drone Fleets

Parker LORD sponsors research to model energy consumption for quadcopter package delivery drones

FLIGHT TESTING OF WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK FOR ROTORCRAFT SHUMS

Synchronized wireless and hard-wired sensor network on rotating components includes energy harvesting to eliminate battery maintenance and improve SHUMS on Sikorsky MH-60S.

TRACKING PITCH LINK DYNAMIC LOADS

MicroStrain’s wireless sensor system is demonstrated in flight tests for direct load monitoring on Bell M412 rotating components along side energy harvesting and energy aware operating modes.

ENERGY HARVESTING WIRELESS SENSORS FOR HELICOPTER DAMAGE TRACKING

Wireless sensor networks with integrated energy harvesting capabilities demonstrate autonomous helicopter pitch link monitoring and condition based maintenance for NAVAIR.

INTEGRATING WIRELESS SYSTEMS AND ROTORCRAFT HUMS

Optimize communication, data analysis, and battery life with a Wireless Network

FIXED-WING WIRELESS HEALTH MONITORING

Instant, comprehensive reporting of aircraft health, from nose to rudder

ROTORCRAFT WIRELESS HEALTH MONITORING

MicroStrain’s distributed rotorcraft wireless health monitoring systems provide a wealth of information about aircraft component health and usage.

NASA DEPLOYS MICROSTRAIN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

A distributed network of MicroStrain’s wireless sensors and its cloud-based data management portal, SensorCloud, were used by NASA to monitor the affects of acoustic shock on Kennedy Space Center equipment.

INERTIAL SENSING FOR UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES

LORD Sensing-MicroStrain® inertial sensors provide high performance in a very small and lightweight package. MEMS technologies combined with GNSS/GPS and sophisticated estimation filtering offer accurate and reliable data quantities to provide precise control, stabilization, and pointing at the best value.

Magnetometer vs Dual-Antenna Heading in Fixed-Wing Aircraft

This report compares the steps necessary to use magnetometer vs dual-antenna as a heading source for a Cessna 150M flown in a repeated flight profile.

GQ7 VS GX5 PRODUCT COMPARISON TEST REPORT

The new 3DMGQ7-GNSS/INS builds on the success of the 3DMGX5-GNSS/INS and adds many features desired by customers which resolve common challenges in specific use cases. This test report highlights four evolutionary improvements.

• Test 1: Dual-Antenna Stationary Heading
• Test 2: Magnetic Interference Immunity
• Test 3: Dual-Antenna + RTK vs Single-Antenna
• Test 4: Wheel Odometry Aiding during GNSS Attenuation

Detail

SYNCHRONIZED SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS SENSING, RFID, DATA AGGREGATION AND REMOTE REPORTING

Integrated structural health monitoring and reporting system for use on pitch link of Navy Bell M412 helicopter synchronizes distributed miniature sensors and active RFID in a low-power network.

UNMANNED ROTORCRAFT FLIGHT TESTING USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR DATA COLLECTION AND CLOUD-BASED COMPUTING

Aircraft flight test has traditionally been expensive and time consuming to accomplish, requiring complex hardware design and integration and extensive operational test teams to address aircraft downtime for instrumentation maintenance and calibration, flight operations, and post-flight data handling and evaluation.

BETA TECHNOLOGIES’ EVTOL DEVELOPMENT TAKES OFF WITH MICROSTRAIN SENSORS

Technology evolves as we improve how information is gathered, analyzed and implemented into various applications. For instance, Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft (-VTOL) can take off, hover and land vertically.

It Is Rocket Science – Case Study

The digital control lines of the firing control sequence from solid propellant rocket motors are used to control a Prosig P8048, which measures vibration and pressure signals.

Flight Test Analysis – Case Study

Prosig used their DATS software and P8000 hardware platform to develop a flight test suite that covers standard vibration and acoustic analysis as well as specific analyses for modal flutter analysis and stability analysis.

Space – Satellite Testing – Case Study

The National Satellite Test Facility (NSTF) is a new facility in the UK for the environmental testing of satellites and large sub-assemblies. A key component of the test facilities is a high-speed multi-channel Dynamic Test Data Acquisition System.