Architecture of a microservice-based flight management system simulation
LI Qing1, FAN Yiping1, LI Dachuan2, JIANG Xin3, LIU Enyu3, CHEN Jia3
1. Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; 2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China; 3. Beijing Aeronautical Science & Technology Research Institute, Beijing 102211, China
Abstract：Modern flight management systems (FMS) are large multi-profession products that are the core of trajectory-based operations (TBO) and the next generation air traffic management systems that have cost and complexity barriers. This study presents a flexible, scalable distributed simulation system for product design, testing, verification, and evaluation. The distributed simulation architecture is based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing and microservice with simulation unit service, simulation orchestration, simulation process monitoring and control. A prototype was implemented with simulation results for an FMS system. The simulation components are encapsulated as microservices or accessed through agents and brokers, and the various FMS system frameworks and simulation tasks can be configured through the simulation orchestration. The FMS product simulation illustrates the system effectiveness and flexibility.
李清, 樊一萍, 李大川, 蒋欣, 刘恩钰, 陈甲. 基于微服务的飞行管理系统仿真：体系与方法[J]. 清华大学学报（自然科学版）, 2020, 60(7): 589-596.
LI Qing, FAN Yiping, LI Dachuan, JIANG Xin, LIU Enyu, CHEN Jia. Architecture of a microservice-based flight management system simulation. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology), 2020, 60(7): 589-596.
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