A hardware-in-the-loop simulation method for the evaluation of flight control systems

To evaluate the performances of flight control systems (FCSs) with the hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS), a hardware-in-the-loop simulation method was proposed in this paper. Firstly, a HILS system for the evaluation of FCS was introduced. And the comparisons between the HILS and the mathematical simulation were performed to show the advantages of HILS in the evaluation of FCS. Then, a HILS method for the evaluation of FCS was proposed to show how to evaluate FCS performances with the HILS system, including the HILS test method, the HILS test result analysis and evaluation method.