MALVINA

Modular Avionics for Light Vehicle IN Aeronautics

The overall architecture of Modular Avionics for Light Vehicle IN Aeronautics is addressed by MALVINA proposal with the final objective to standardise and validate a Malvina core avionics open architecture, which would allow any equipment manufacturer, conforming to the standard, to plug in with a minimum of integration burden.

Addressed equipments are flight sensors, cockpit displays, navigation and communication, utilities airframe & engines sensors and actuators.

The proposed work allows the modular avionics architecture specification, then prototyping and plugging with its equipment in an avionics validation test bench. Project proposal, which budget is modest, will end after MALVINA validation.

Flight tests will be proposed in a follow-on proposal. Project proposal was born in a SME, and is SME led and oriented. An important effort is located on the dissemination plan to insure MALVINA architecture standard recognition as large as possible.

The main technologies involved are:

• Flat screen displays;
• Real-time computers;
• Real-time operating systems;
• Man Machine Interface (MMI) software standards;
• Communication standards;
• Data communication hardware and software.

Expected results

The MALVINA project spans a 24-months period.

• The first expected results, 9 months after the beginning, will be definition of the open architecture and detailed definition of the demonstrator.
• The second milestone is in the mid-term review which will access the satisfactory progress of the project.
• The third milestone will be the successful integration of the demonstrator at 22 months.
• Finally, the fourth milestone will be the performance measurement and the final report at 24 months.