Flight Test Data Monitoring And Analysis With STK

A flight monitoring system ohas been developed based on STK and Matlab software. The system is developed to build a system where the real flight test data can be monitored and visualised online, to enable pertinent flight analysis to be performed during flight test onsite, and to enable more detail flight analyis to be processed soon after flight test.The system is mainly consists of four components; the flight data sensor onboard of flying vehicle, the ground receiver, the software MATLAB processing, and the STK flight data visulaisation and processing. On this particular project, only IMU and GPS data are to be measured and visualised. These data is then transmited to the ground using radio modem, and further collected and read by MATLAB from the ground receiver hardware. These collected data is plotted on MATLAB to show the graphical trends, but then tranfered to STK to be visualised in 3D environment and to be analysed further. Several improvent to be added to the system includes adding more plugin and functions to enhance analysis in both Matlab and STK environment, incorporating radar systems to supplement data from the GPS receiver, and performing more advanced post-Flight data analysis.