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La Modélisation et la Simulation au service de l’Innovation

October 2014MATLAB EXPO - AIRBUS - PARIS

Stability & Control

Stéphane MARCY

© AIRBUS Operations S.A.S. All rights reserved. Confidential and proprietary document.

AGENDA


• Airbus group presentation and simulation history

• Challenges

• MATLAB & Simulink at Airbus

• Innovations

o Brake To Vacate system

o AP2633 standard

o Model Based System Engineering (MBSE)

• Conclusion

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Airbus Group


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A full range of market leading civil airliners

A320 family:

A take-off or landing every 2.5 seconds,

7 billion passengers carried since EIS in 1988

A330 family:

A take-off or landing every 25 seconds,

More than 800 A330s sold since 787 launch

A350 XWB:

EIS Q4 2014

812 orders from 39 customers

A380:

Takes-off or lands approx. every 6 minutes

125 flights per day and 1 million pax per month

2013 orders: 1619 – 2013 deliveries: 626

Airbus Family


© AIRBUS S.A.S. All rights reserved. Confidential and propretary document.

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Where I am?


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Who I am?


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Who I am?


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Control and model based design

• Control synthesis needs

• To close the loop

• To model its environment

To be connected


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Control and Model Based Design

• Tuning of the laws has been performed using a simulator

oModel based design is efficiency

o It is direct, measurable cost reduction


La mise au point des lois a étépresque entièrement réalisée

sur simulateur*

* The control laws tuning has be almost completely done on simulator

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Our challenges

• Safety

• Complexity control

• Certification

• Extended enterprise

• Master costs & developments

• Innovation

• Security

• Support (short to long term)

• Connect heterogeneous worlds (operations, engineering…)


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Why MATLAB and Simulink?


New methods

Standards

Certification

A/C Models

Simulations & Rapid Prototyping

AP2633

Reduce tools

Efficiency

Integration

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2 types of Innovation


What is innovation?

Creativity is about coming up with ideas whereas

Innovation brings ideas to life.

Innovation

Incremental

Disruptive

On the product itself

On the way to make it

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Incremental product innovation – Brake To Vacate System

A new idea, that could be bring value the product line


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Incremental product innovation

Current use of MATLAB during innovation process


Current Validation

and Verification AC development

scheme on the first target

Prototyping Phase

Function early development

A340Concept phase

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BTV: a continuous innovative development function


Flight Control computers

specification

Braking steering

computers specification

SAO

specification

(Simulink like)

A detailed system specification development process

“Supplier” product

Reference

documents

(certification)

2 first hosts of the function

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Innovative development Step 1: convince stakeholders


SAO

specification

(Simulink like)

SAO2SL

Simulink

Embedded Coder generation

Fidelity / current AIRBUS simulators

Convince

managers/ experts

Convince pilots

On 100% virtual

A/C€

Build and refine

requirements

Function descriptions

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Innovative development Step 2: implement embedded software


SAO

specification

(Simulink like)

Simulink

Maturation

By the design

loop Flying prototype

Implementation

(verification)

Simulator

Process

flight test

results

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Incremental product innovation

From one AC to another


V&V A380

now embed MATLAB tools

& Simulink models

(for BTV/ROPS function)

Prototype product

on a real demonstrator

In service

support

analysis

Performance

simulatorSystem architecture is different.

MBSE Tools were used, some were

coupled with MATLAB when

requiring accurate simulation

results

Innovate on the product

Innovate on the way to embed it

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Innovation & prototypes

In a nutshell,

• MATLAB/Simulink provide an efficient environment for:

o Concept validation

o Prototyping

• New approaches can be embedded into heavy development processes

• When providing that capability to designers, new ideas emerge naturally…


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ROP, a new idea supported by the new mean


Inspiration coming from tools

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Development


Development:

A mature process, often necessarily heavy,

with a known target

Efficient ways of validate, verify and certify the

A/C

Concerns on product and methods and tools:

• New A/C development

• Family improvements

Standards

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AIRBUS Product strategy - Standards

Product standards are the proposed

solution to optimize the A/C operations

from the beginning


From the 80’s To nowadays

With a quite good success

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Effect on the AIRBUS mindset

Invest into internal standards: AP2633

Example on simulation tools and modelling

• A lot of simulation means!

• A lot of models !

• A lot of integration (model into simulators)


New

OldA typical simulator,

with or without real

partsScheduler

How to do it efficiently?

Internally, externally, with

suppliers models…

AP2633 INTEGRATION

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Movies/ISMAp2633.avi

Movies/IntegrationSIMPA1.avi


AP2633 a coding standard for quick integration

A coding standard standard tools for efficient code generation


Models are coded in templates

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Interface management

(Simulink objects)

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ARINC 429*: It defines the physical and electrical interfaces of a two-wire data

bus and a data protocol to support an aircraft's avionics local area network

A new data, ex:

even ARINC 429*

for a virtual aircraft

bus connection

Data managed in the

model workspace

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Model interface, a specific block

A dedicated browser

Referring to a single

data file

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Code & documentation generation (interfaces)

Code

Documents

& XML data files

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AIRBUS

Simulator,

A bunch of standard

models

Integration

NewScheduler

Need a change of data?

Change only data file…

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Benefits

50% of the models are coming from Simulink

Deployment even on legacy programs


The AIRBUS Model Data Bank:

sharing the same standard

On a lot

of simulators

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Deployment of AP2633 standard

This standard will be available in the common Simulink environment

• Code compliance from Embedded Coder

• Will produce automatically a part of the documentation (interfaces generation)

• Easily available for suppliers


Trends

Self explanatory model

Embedding requirements

Connection to V&V

(credit for certification)

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Next Challenges

• New tools and processes to :

o Speed up innovation

o Improve A/C design/ incremental developments

• Domain connections (physical / system)

• Complexity control

• Specification based processes should be helped by new types of models

(failure analysis, physical architecture validation…)


MBSE

MBSE

objective

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Conclusion


MATLAB & Simulink allow

As an engineer, generating new ideas and make them reality

As a manager, supporting evolving strategy and reducing costs thanks to

• Model exchange with suppliers

• Early simulation

• Model production easiness

As a visionary person, supporting more efficient ways to design aircraft through

• New types of models

• Functional approaches

• Connections between antagonist worlds

• New standards like FMI

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Q&A


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