Software And Hardware Platform Using Dynamic Inversion And Neural Networks For The Launch Vehicles

This work deals with development of a software and hardware technological platform, with applications to the control of the launch vehicles. The software and hardware platform has two main experimental modules: 1) a virtual model of the launch vehicle, implemented as software simulator in a dedicated computer having communication capabilities; 2) a control unit (single-board computer), with specific hardware and dedicated software, which implements the control laws based on dynamic inversion technique and neural networks. The validation of the experimental platform was performed both by numerical simulations and tests in lab conditions as MIL – Model in the Loop (the space vehicle simulator as well as the control system run on the same computer) and HIL – Hardware in the Loop (the control system is embedded in an experimental control unit that communicates with the simulator.