ATTEST: A Tool-kit for Rotorcraft Regime Recognition Codes Validation

IAI and its collaborators (the team) propose to develop ATTEST, a tool-kit for automatic validation of rotorcraft regime recognition codes. The tool-kit will leverage existing rotorcraft simulation platforms, which provide state-of-the-art methodologies and have been validated for a range flight conditions and rotor configurations. The codes will be used to simulate the rotorcraft and provide ?truth data? that can be compared to the predictions from RR codes. Combined with the team?s expertise in design of experiments, applied to both testing as well as aircraft design; the proposed approach seeks to fill in the Navy?s need for a stand-alone tool to validate proprietary rotorcraft regime recognition codes. The team will also leverage on its access to actual flight card data and sophisticated RR codes to improve the fidelity of the proposed tool, simultaneously minimizing the risk involved in validating the tool.