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Development of an educational interactive hardware‐in‐the‐loop missile guidance system simulator
Author(s) -
Chen Zhongyuan,
Chen Wanchun,
Liu Xiaoming,
Song Chuang
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
computer applications in engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.478
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1099-0542
pISSN - 1061-3773
DOI - 10.1002/cae.21888
Subject(s) - hardware in the loop simulation , missile , simulation , tracking (education) , computer science , controller (irrigation) , pid controller , aerospace , instrumentation (computer programming) , control (management) , control engineering , aerospace engineering , engineering , operating system , artificial intelligence , psychology , temperature control , pedagogy , agronomy , biology
This paper presents a hardware‐in‐the‐loop (HIL) simulator, named HIL‐GSS , which aims to help the students of aerospace engineering learn control and missile guidance theories effectively by using interactive instrumentation. Electromechanical components and interactive panels are illustrated. Two case‐based studies are presented to show the advantages that HIL‐GSS offers to engineering education. Steady‐state tracking errors of the PID controller based on the HIL‐GSS are around zero. The final miss distance in the real‐time HIL TV guidance engagement simulation is 0.2376 m. Those results show the reliability of the proposed HIL simulator. In addition, the students' average response to survey questions is 4.22 (1–5 grade scale), which indicates that students strongly agree or agree that HIL‐GSS is an effective educational tool.