FPGA Implementation of Range Safety Panel for Flight Termination System using LabVIEW

This paper demonstrates the design and implementation of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) based range safety panel (RSP) for flight termination system(FTS). In flight testing center, FTS is used for transmitting command to the flight vehicle and destroy it if it is out of designated path. Flight safety officer observes the behavior of the flight vehicle and remotely controls the FTS using RSP. NI SbRIO - 9607 compact rio controller along with Xilinx FPGA is used for RSP realisation. LabVIEW programming language is used to implement the system in real time within designated time delay acceptable for decision making process by range safety officer. GUI is designed For configuration and monitoring of RSP Performance in real time in LabVIEW. The real time performance of the system is validated against its expected performance using various test cases in real time local and remote operations.