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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2017
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
David A. Miller, Swisher, IA (US);
Richard M. Bradford, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Abstract
A method for optimizing the design of backplane and field bus routing for avionics network architectures determines a solution space of valid configurations defined by the intersection of universes corresponding to potential aircraft sensor locations, the data content relationships for each hosted application executing on the aircraft computing center, potential remote data concentrator (RDC) configurations, and potential backplane/field bus configurations for the avionics network architecture. The method includes identifying within the solution space, via an optimization engine, optimal configuration solutions of a desired optimality level based on connectivity constraints, system survivability constraints providing spatial separation of primary and redundant sensor and data collection systems, system robustness constraints associated with minimum functional capabilities for continued safe flight and landing capability, and an objective function characterizing overall desirability.