Aircraft Deck Motion Compensation Design

The proposed work has two companion objectives. Objective #1 is to assess the feasibility of developing a prototype Systems Engineering Analysis and Documentation (SEAD) tool which effectively supports the analysis of static and dynamic systems, manages output data, documents and communicates the results. The tool will be designed to interface with, and use, system information/descriptive models. Objective #2 is to host an Automatic Carrier Landing System (ACLS) domain model within the tool which encodes the tests, evaluations, examples, and design guidance appearing in Sections 6.4, 10 and 11 of the Carrier Suitability Testing Manual. The tool will host legacy ACLS models for the CASTLE non-linear F/A-18C/D model, a linear F/A-18C/D model and an A-7E model. The tool will support automated testing of these models against the Carrier Suitability test suite and will display the results against established design criteria. In Phase II Option 1, the ACLS domain model will be extended to include a model of the UCAS-D aircraft using the JPALS recovery system. The Phase II Option 2 will extend the ACLS domain to include the MQ-8C Fire Scout together with a model of the UCARS radar recovery system and environmental disturbances for DDG class ships.