Prototypical Control for the Digital Twin of Aircraft Environmental Control System

Kurzfassung

A digital twin of the overall aircraft Environmental Con-trol System is being developed as part of TheMa4HERA,a large European research initiative. It shall support ver-ification and validation activities by virtually demonstrat-ing the behavior of the complete system in various condi-tions. To this end, a prototypical control scheme needs tobe developed so that a dynamic simulation through com-plete flight missions is enabled. The prototypical controlscheme is tuned using a simplified version of the Dig-ital Twin which focuses on robustness and fast compu-tation time, while making it robust enough to be stablewhen used with the high-fidelity Digital Twin. An alreadystable and working controller for simulating the detailedDigital Twin, provides a significant gain of time, allowingfor immediate preliminary results on both steady-state andtransient system behaviors. This paper describes the basemodel of the Digital Twin and the methodology used todesign the prototypical control architecture.