FURTHER ADVANCES IN DEVELOPING A UNIFIED POST FLIGHT ANALYSIS SYSTEM

Abstract

The IADS team has been designing a unified platform for post-test analysis over the past few years. This design aimed to satisfy a set of core requirements that were gathered from meeting with engineering groups throughout the flight test community. The goal was to create a standardized system for post-test analysis from those requirements that could be used by different flight test disciplines across projects. The IADS team has made significant progress implementing these requirements. We have also received valuable feedback from the flight test community on ways to improve the system. This paper will explore some of the challenges encountered using such a system in a real-world environment, as well as some solutions that have been used to overcome these obstacles. Topics will include strategies for interfacing with different data file formats, challenges faced when working with data in the cloud, adding additional flexibility to data analysis, and user-interface improvements.