Micro EFIS project page

Introduction

This page contains a short presentation of the Micro EFIS project. The project is a part of the course TSRT71, a project course in automation and control.

Background

The General Aviation (GA) has become very old (40+ year old aircrafts are now very common) thanks to reliable air frames and rapidly increasing prices of new light aircraft. A vast majority of these aircrafts are equipped with old-fashioned mechanical flight instruments, now reaching the end of their lifetime as the air frames become older. Instead of performing a complete upgrade of the entire aircraft, which can result in costs often exceeding the value of the entire aircraft, one can complete the system with a much more affordable Micro EFIS. A Micro EFIS is, as the name implies, a small EFIS (Electronic Flight Information System), targeted for the GA market. It is intented as a backup system for the mechanical flight instruments.

Goal

The goal of this project is to design a stripped down version of a Micro EFIS and to evaluate the implementation based on a state-of-the art organic graphical display; a so called OLED display. This to ensure high endurance at extreme temperatures (down to -30ºC). The system shall be implemented on one single FPGA to meet the need to be small in size and have a low cost. Since it is intented as a backup system it must have a high reliability, be independent of external systems and simple to use. To increase the ease of upgrading the system and to incrementally add functions, it shall be built in modules.


Anders and Mikael worked real hard under supervision of our project manager Christian


Mikael and Ville with full control of the computer


Sometimes not even the project manager knew what to do... (Anna and Christian)