Education and demonstration – Vehicle operator instruction or testing – Flight vehicle
Patent
1986-11-07
1989-06-27
Blum, Theodore M.
Education and demonstration
Vehicle operator instruction or testing
Flight vehicle
434 49, 434372, 434379, 364802, 364805, 34081512, G09B 908, G09B25000, G06G 762, G08B 536
Patent
active
048425206
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to an analogue simulator for control circuits actuated from an operating station or cockpit. It particularly concerns, although in a nonlimitative manner, an analogue simulator of the control circuits of an aircraft more especially adapted for training on new equipment.
This type of simulation apparatus, particularly in the case of aircraft, is known under the name "cockpit trainer". In a general manner, there are no dynamic sequences reproducing the condition of flight, the use of this type of apparatus being above all for the new qualification of the envisaged users or for revision courses relating to aircraft circuits.
Analogue simulators for circuits are already known as such. In particular, an analogue simulator for fluid circuits has been described in French Certificate of Utility No. 2 491 238. This type of simulator principally intended to ensure the representation of different parameters of operation of an installation of ventilation networks for subterranean mine galleries cannot however permit an interactive type of use between the student operator and the instructor operator both able to act on the simulation parameters of the simulator.
The invention has the object of providing a simulator device permitting a use of the type stimulus, response, control between an instructor operator and a student operator. It relates to an analogue simulator for control circuits actuated from an operating station or control cockpit such as an aircraft cockpit. The simulator comprises an exact reproduction of the control cockpit able to ensure the functioning by a student operator of simulation devices of the control circuits. The simulation devices are constituted in at least one instruction panel each showing at least one control circuit and intended to display different parameters or simulation motifs visible by the student operator. An operating console ensures the connection between the simulation devices and the cockpit and is able to permit a modification by an instructor operator of the simulation parameters of the simulation devices according to a procedure of priority between the orders coming from the operating console and the orders coming from all the functions of the cockpit.
The invention finds application principally in the field of aeronautics but can of course be used in any other field in which the driving of an installation is to be learned.
The invention will be better understood from reading the description and studying the drawings below in which:
FIG. 1 shows a general layout of an analogue simulator according to the invention;
FIGS. 2a and 2b show details of the analogue simulator of the invention;
FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of electronic circuits for display of control of the analogue simulator according to the invention;
FIGS. 4a to 4c show particular preferred embodiments of different electronic circuits shown in FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 shows a particular embodiment of a protocol of priority for instructor operator, student operator orders in the case of the simulation of a jet engine failure.
As shown in FIG. 1, the analogue simulator for control circuits actuated from an operating station or cockpit comprises an exact reproduction of the control cockpit 1 provided with controls capable of ensuring the actuation of simulation devices of the circuits by a student operator 3.
In FIG. 1, the control cockpit 1 is represented by an aircraft cockpit in a broken view. The control cockpit is an exact reproduction of a fully functional aircraft cockpit including all buttons, systems, control means and the like which are being simulated. Each button or control means permits the student operator 3 to actuate the lighting or extinction of the simulation devices representative of the control circuits of the aircraft.
The simulation devices 4 are constituted by at least one instruction panel, reference 5.sub.1,5.sub.2 in FIG. 1, each representing at least one control circuit of an installation or of the aircraft. The panel or panels are intended to display different paramet
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Blum Theodore M.
Issing Gregory C.
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