Case Study: Avio Aero accelerates aircraft engine control system development with National Instruments hardware in the loop

Loccioni and Avio Aero Apply Hardware in the Loop to Design, Integrate, Verify, and Validate the Control Systems of New Aircraft Engines

Avio Aero, partnering with the systems integrator Loccioni, needed to design a scalable and reliable real-time system to verify and validate the control systems of new aircraft engines. Their challenge was to acquire and synchronize a huge amount of data from distributed I/O, execute complex control models, and provide a multi-workstation interface for monitoring and control.

The vendor, National Instruments, provided a solution using its PXI platform, DAQ modules, and VeriStand software to create a deterministic real-time architecture. This integrated system handled high-speed data acquisition, logging, and processing. By implementing this NI solution, Avio Aero reduced its development time by 40 percent, decreased lead time, and increased overall profit.

Avio Aero

Cristian Lai

Avio Aero