Automatic testing the lamps avionic system

The LAMPS (Light Airborne Multipurpose System) Avionic System is a complex, sophisticated, helicopter borne system designed to perform Antisubmarine War fare (ASW) and Antiship Surveillance Targeting (ASST) missions. This paper describes the LAMPS Avionic Mainte nance Test (AMT) system, which has been designed to provide Navy Electronic Maintenance personnel with a self-contained, interactive, comprehensive, yet easy to-use, diagnostic system capable of detecting equip ment faults and isolating those faults to the failed. ,,black box.,, The AMT system comprises the following elements 0 Avionic Maintenance Technician/Operator 0 Avionic Maintenance Manuals 0 Avionic Maintenance Test Program (AMTP) 0 LAMPS Avionic System. The LAMPS Avionic System contains both new development avionic equipment and inventory (in-serive) equipment. Certain modifications have been incorporated into selected new-development avionic equipment to support testing of some in-service equipment the has limited built-in test (BIT) capability.