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    • 专利摘要:
    The present invention relates to an in-line carrier transmission device (1) between two equipment (10, 20) embedded in an aircraft (1), the in-line carrier transmission device (1) comprising a transmission cable ( 3) connecting the two devices (10, 20), the transmission cable (3) being configured to simultaneously transmit a supply current and a data signal, the in-line carrier transmission device (1) being characterized in the transmission cable (3) has two pairs of twisted conductors.
    公开号:FR3049790A1
    申请号:FR1652808
    申请日:2016-03-31
    公开日:2017-10-06
    发明作者:Francois Guillot
    申请人:Sagem Defense Securite SA；
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    专利说明:

    Power line transmission device in an aircraft
    FIELD OF THE INVENTION
    The present invention relates to the field of simultaneous transmission of power and data by line carrier currents between equipment embedded in an aircraft.
    STATE OF THE ART
    The term Online Carrier Currents or CPL refers to a technology that allows the transfer of digital information through an electrical power distribution line. In particular, the PLC technology is commonly used on the low-voltage terrestrial network (alternating current at 50 Hz or 60 Hz).
    Carrier currents were already used on the terrestrial network for low-speed industrial or home automation applications.
    In the context of terrestrial applications, the principle of power line currents consists in superimposing on the conventional electric power supply a signal with a higher frequency and low energy. This second signal propagates on the electrical installation and can be received and decoded remotely. Thus the CPL signal is received by any CPL receiver which is on the same electrical network.
    The present invention is particularly directed to CPL applications on board aircraft. In these areas, the weight and bulk generated by the wiring on board aircraft represent a significant cost that should be limited as much as possible. Generally, power cables provide DC voltage for embedded equipment consist of a pair of twisted copper wires.
    These cables generate parasitic couplings resulting in transmission errors that can only be corrected at the expense of the information transmitted.
    The equipment on board an aircraft is subject to specific constraints in terms of the reliability of the information transmitted and the security to which the in-line carrier power transmission systems of the prior art do not make it possible to respond.
    SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
    An object of the invention is to provide a system for transmitting power and electrical signals simultaneously between equipment embedded in an aircraft respecting the reliability and safety constraints specific to equipment on board an aircraft.
    This object is achieved in the context of the present invention by means of an in-line carrier transmission device between two equipment on board an aircraft, the in-line carrier transmission device comprising a transmission cable connecting the two equipment, the transmission cable being configured to simultaneously transmit a supply current and a data signal, the in-line carrier transmission device being characterized in that the transmission cable has two pairs of twisted conductors. The use of a transmission cable comprising two pairs of twisted conductors makes it possible to generate capacitive and inductive couplings which ensure the quality of the transmission of information, thus enabling the use of line carrier currents in an aircraft. The use of in-line power lines in an aircraft makes it possible to drastically limit the number of connectors and wires, which makes it possible to substantially limit the weight and bulk of the equipment on board an aircraft. The invention is advantageously completed by the following characteristics, taken individually or in any of their technically possible combinations: the two pairs of twisted conductors are surrounded by a shield, the shield being adapted to be connected to a metal structure the aircraft; the on-line carrier transmission device comprises a data transmitter comprising a COFDM coupler configured to modulate a carrier modulated signal in a COFDM mode, and a data receiver comprising a COFDM coupler configured to demodulate a modulation modulated signal. carriers in a COFDM mode; the data transmitter and the data receiver each comprise an inductive coupler between the COFDM coupler and the transmission line filtering the data signals by passing only the signals having a frequency greater than the frequency of the supply current; the data transmitter and the data receiver each comprise a low-pass filter filtering the supply current by only passing through the signals having a power lower than the frequency of the data signals; the data transmitter and the data receiver are data transmitters / receivers, the transmission cable being configured for bidirectional data transmission, one of the pairs of conductors being assigned to data transmission in one direction, another pair of conductors being assigned to the data transmission in the other direction; the data transmitter is configured to transmit a carrier modulation test signal in a COFDM mode; the data receiver is configured to detect signals corresponding to the transmitted test signals, and to analyze the carriers of the signal detected with regard to the transmitted signal and to deduce the state of the transmission cable; the data receiver is configured to analyze the frequency response of the detected signals to detect a fault of at least one carrier and to deduce an alteration of the transmission cable; the data receiver comprises a module for measuring the supply current for detecting variations in the series resistance of the transmission cable; the data transmitter is configured to allocate separate transmission time slots for the aircraft safety-critical data and the non-critical aircraft safety data.
    DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES Other objectives, features and advantages will become apparent from the detailed description which follows with reference to the drawings given by way of non-limiting illustration, among which: FIG. 1 illustrates an aircraft equipped with a device for simultaneous transmission of power and data between two equipment embedded in the aircraft according to the invention; FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a transmission device according to the invention; - Figure 3 shows a cable of a transmission device of a transmission device according to the invention; - Figure 4 schematically shows the coupling of the data in a transmission device according to the invention; FIG. 5 represents the spectrum of the power signal and the data signal in one embodiment of a transmission device according to the invention; FIG. 6 shows the synchronization carriers in the data signal in one embodiment of a transmission device according to the invention; FIG. 7 represents an exemplary transmission frame pattern in an embodiment of a transmission device according to the invention.
    DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
    FIG. 1 illustrates an aircraft 1 equipped with a carrier power transmission device 3 in line between at least two equipment 10 and 20 on board the aircraft 1. One of the equipment 10 is powered by a power source 300 of high voltage direct current, the other equipment 20 is powered by the electrical power supplied by the transmission cable 3. One of the onboard equipment 10 is for example the central computer of the aircraft 1 and the other 20 of the peripherals of the aircraft. navigation, for example flight instruments (artificial horizon, anemometer, altimeter, variometer, etc.), navigation (compass, ILS, VOR, GPS, etc.), powertrain management (tachometer, temperature and pressure, etc. .), telecommunications management (radio, intercom system, etc.), servitude management (fuel consumption, voltage and electrical current, etc.) or other instruments pécialisés.
    With reference to FIG. 2, the on-line carrier transmission device 3 comprises a data transmitter 100 intended to be connected to one of the equipment 10 and a data receiver 200 intended to be connected to the other equipment 20 .
    The simultaneous transmission device 3 power and data comprises a transmission cable 3, connecting the data receiver 200 to the data transmitter 100 and the power source 300. The transmitter 100 and the receiver 200 can in particular be transmitters / receivers configured for bidirectional data transmission.
    The cable 3 is designed to carry high voltage direct or alternating current (HVAC or HVDCDC), typically 50 or 60 Hz and 540 V, and higher frequency data, typically 3 to 300 MHz and typically lower energy. at 10 dBm).
    With reference to FIG. 3, the transmission cable 3 is a star cable (or 'star quad') which comprises two pairs of twisted conductors 34.
    Each conductor 34 is surrounded by an insulating layer.
    The two pairs of conductors 34 are arranged at the top of a square, the two conductors of the same pair being arranged along a diagonal of the square.
    The relative positioning of the conductors 34 forming the cable 3 makes it possible to generate capacitive and inductive couplings which ensure the quality of the transmission of the information.
    These couplings must be made all the more precise that it is desired to pass a large flow of information.
    Any lack of symmetry of the four-wire star cable results in parasitic couplings resulting in transmission errors which can only be corrected at the expense of the bit rate of the transmitted information.
    The conductors 34 are for example fixed to a cylindrical carrier member by glue so as to maintain their respective positions. During the realization of the fourth star, the four conductors 34 are twisted while being guided to maintain them accurately at the top of a square.
    The two pairs of twisted conductors 34 are surrounded by a metal shield 31 and possibly a sheath 32 made of paper or polyester, for example for mechanical support.
    The shield 31 may in particular be connected to the metal structure 2 of the aircraft 1, which protects the cable 3 from lightning.
    The 2 twisted pairs 34a and 34b are characterized by iterative impedance and low crosstalk between them.
    Referring to FIG. 4, in the case of bidirectional transmission, two of the leads 34a are connected firstly to the transmitter of the first equipment and secondly to the receiver of the second equipment, and two of the drivers 34b are connected on the one hand to the receiver of the first equipment and on the other hand to the transmitter of the second equipment.
    Both receiver 200 and transmitter 100 are arranged to exchange orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (or COFDM) coded signals. For this purpose, they each comprise a COFDM coupler 44.
    The data is transmitted in the form of coded multiplexed orthogonal frequency division coded signals (more commonly referred to as Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (COFDM) signals). This makes it possible to pass a maximum of data in the cables while avoiding the imperfections of the cables.
    This multiplexing method is known per se and will not be detailed here: it will simply be recalled that this method consists of dividing the signal to be transmitted into subsets, having a low bandwidth, which are each used to modulate a relatively important of orthogonal carriers.
    As illustrated in FIG. 5, the fact of multiplexing the data by orthogonal frequency division makes it possible for the transmission of the data S2 to be outside the noise spectrum of the power transmission S1. The data transmitter 100 and the data receiver 200 each comprise an inductive coupler 41.
    The inductive coupler 41 filters the data signals in common mode. It acts as a high-pass filter permitting only the signals having a frequency greater than the frequency of the supply current between the COFDM coupler 44 and the transmission line 3. The inductive couplers 41 make it possible to limit the noise induced by the power supply on the data signals. The data transmitter 100 and the data receiver 200 each comprise a low-pass filter 42 filtering the supply current. The power source 300 is connected to the cable 3 via a low-pass filter 42 and the equipment 20 is supplied with power by means of another low-pass filter 42. The low-pass filters 42 provide the filtering of the supply current by only passing signals having a power lower than the frequency of the data signals. The low-pass filters 42 make it possible to limit the noise induced by the supply current on the data signals.
    The data receiver 200 may further comprise a DC / AC converter for transforming the HVDC current transmitted on the cable 3 into an AC current for supplying the equipment 20.
    The power and data transmission device may further comprise a module for monitoring a state of a transmission cable 3. The transmitter 100 is then configured to transmit a carrier modulation test signal in a COFDM mode. , and the receiver 200 is configured to detect signals downstream of the transmitter corresponding to the transmitted test signals, and to analyze the carriers of the signal detected with respect to the transmitted signal and to deduce the state of the cable.
    Indeed, a modification of the properties of the cable 3 causes an alteration of the carriers of the signals. The monitoring of the carriers makes it possible to deduce a state of the transmission cable.
    FIG. 5 represents the signal emitted by the transmitter 100. The spectrum of the signal comprises: a first portion which corresponds to the power signal SI; a second portion which is in a medium frequency band and which is a signal of data S2, - a third portion which is in a relatively high frequency band and which forms the test signal S3. The characteristic impedance of the cable is known up to the highest frequencies of COFDM carrier data transmission.
    In case of degradation of the cable, there is therefore a disturbance of the iterative appearance of the characteristic impedance thereof. The response of the cable 3 will no longer be that of an iterative impedance cable and will have, seen from the transmitter, a complex impedance which results in resonance phenomena generating discontinuity in the frequency response of the cable. The study of the frequency response makes it possible to detect an alteration of the physical characteristics of the cable 3. A local modification of the geometry of the cable 3 introduces a series resonance which strongly reduces the impedance for a particular frequency corresponding to the resonance frequency (it this results in attenuation of the carrier at this frequency) or a parallel resonance generating an overvoltage at the resonant frequency.
    It can be seen in FIG. 5 that some carriers of the test signal S3 are attenuated while other carriers of the test signal S3 are amplified. The location of the fault along the cable depends on the frequency of the altered carrier: the further the defect is from the transmitter, the more the altered carrier has a low frequency.
    The induced disturbances will have an impact depending on the excitation frequency and the distance of the fault from the starting point of the carriers.
    The receiver 200 is therefore configured to study the frequency response of the detected signals to detect a fault of at least one carrier and to deduce an alteration of the cable. The transmitter 100 may in particular be configured to simultaneously transmit data signals with the test signals, the test signals being transmitted in a frequency band above a frequency band of the data signals.
    Indeed, the addition of high frequency bands in the test signal makes it possible to increase the sensitivity of the system.
    The monitoring over time of the amplitudes of the different carriers makes it possible to identify the progressive deteriorations of the wiring, before the loss of the communication function.
    The power and data transmission device may further comprise a monitoring module 130 for the appearance of electrical arcs internal to the cable. Partial discharges (or arcing premisses) between two cable conductors are detected in the same manner as other faults by the occurrence of local impedance variations on the line. These variations generate complex impedances which are also highlighted by amplitude modulation of some carriers of the COFDM multiplexing profile.
    The transmission device 3 may further comprise a measurement module 150 of the supply current for detecting variations in the series resistance of the cable 3. In fact, a variation of the series resistance of the cable indicates a failure on the transmission line. .
    With reference to FIG. 6, to improve the reliability of security critical data transmission, transmission time slots are allocated to security critical data flows.
    With reference to FIG. 7, synchronization carriers Ps are dedicated to the phase control of the time base of the receiver 100.
    The internal sequencer of the coupler 41 of the transmitter 100 (which will be called master coupler thereafter) generates a transmission frame pattern allocating transmission time slots.
    The internal sequencer of the master coupler 41 allocates separate transmission time slots for critical data and non-critical data.
    The internal sequencer of the coupler 41 of the receiver (which will be called remote coupler thereafter) generates a frame pattern identical to that emitted by the master coupler.
    The synchronization patterns issued periodically can be assigned a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) to reject false data with a probability of occurrence> 1.10 ® FH.
    The CRC can detect transmission or transfer errors by adding, combining and comparing redundant data obtained through a hashing procedure.
    The fast Fourier transform or FFT of the message makes it possible to generate an average component dependent on the phase difference between the oscillator of the master coupler which is then the reference oscillator and the time base of the remote coupler.
    The phase-modulated carriers, after FFT, deliver a zero average component, thus having no effect on the control of the oscillator of the piloted timebase.
    The detection of a synchronization pattern forces the synchronization of the local frame of the remote coupler.
    This frame is used for the transport of data from the remote coupler to the master coupler with rigorously the same durations of transmitted patterns.
    Each transmitted message can also be assigned a CRC for detecting the erroneous messages.
    The frame sent from the master coupler (and that of the remote coupler) is divided into sequences comprising the following elements: - synchronization pattern; - Critical data in real time; - CRC control pattern calculated from critical data; - Data not critical in Best Effort (the size is dimensioned by the previous reasons and the periodicity real time).
    The sequence allocated to real-time critical data is sized to accommodate all real-time data.
    The sequence allocated to the non-critical data in Best Effort is sized according to the time remaining after allocation of time to the critical data.
    Best Effort data is stored in a buffer register (FIFO) to support temporary weaknesses in available bandwidth capability on the Best Effort data transmission channel.
    权利要求:
    Claims (10)
    [1" id="c-fr-0001]
    1. Device for transmitting power line signals (1) between two devices (10, 20) embedded in an aircraft (1), the power line transmission device (1) comprising a transmission cable (3) connecting the two devices (10, 20), the transmission cable (3) being configured to simultaneously transmit a supply current and a data signal, the in-line carrier transmission device (1) being characterized in that the transmission cable (3) comprises two pairs of twisted conductors (34, 34a, 34b).
    [2" id="c-fr-0002]
    2. In line carrier transmission device (1) according to the preceding claim, wherein the two pairs of conductors (34, 34a, 34b) twisted are surrounded by a shield (31), the shield (31) being adapted to be connected to a metal structure (2) of the aircraft (1).
    [3" id="c-fr-0003]
    In-line carrier transmission device (1) according to one of the preceding claims, comprising a data transmitter (100) comprising a COFDM coupler (44) configured to modulate a carrier modulated signal in a COFDM mode, and a data receiver (200) having a COFDM coupler (44) configured to demodulate a modulated carrier modulated signal in a COFDM mode.
    [4" id="c-fr-0004]
    4. In line carrier transmission device (1) according to the preceding claim, wherein the data transmitter (100) and the data receiver (200) each comprise an inductive coupler (41) between the COFDM coupler (44). ) and the transmission line (3) filters the data signals by only passing signals having a frequency higher than the frequency of the supply current.
    [5" id="c-fr-0005]
    In-line carrier transmission device (1) according to one of claims 3 to 4, wherein the data transmitter (100) and the data receiver (200) each comprise a low-pass filter (42). filtering the supply current by passing only the signals having a power lower than the frequency of the data signals.
    [6" id="c-fr-0006]
    In-line carrier transmission device (1) according to one of claims 3 to 5, wherein the data transmitter (100) and the data receiver (200) are data transmitters / receivers. transmission cable (3) being configured for bi-directional data transmission, one of the pairs of conductors (34a) being assigned to the transmission of data in one direction, the other pair of conductors (34a) being assigned to the transmission of data in the other direction.
    [7" id="c-fr-0007]
    The in-line carrier transmission device (1) according to one of claims 3 to 6, wherein: - the data transmitter (100) is configured to transmit a carrier modulation test signal according to a mode COFDM, - the data receiver (200) is configured to detect signals corresponding to the transmitted test signals, and to analyze the carriers of the detected signal with regard to the transmitted signal and to deduce the state of the transmission cable (3).
    [8" id="c-fr-0008]
    8. In line carrier transmission device (1) according to the preceding claim, wherein the data receiver (200) is configured to analyze the frequency response of the detected signals to detect a fault of at least one carrier and deduce an alteration of the transmission cable (3).
    [9" id="c-fr-0009]
    In-line carrier transmission device (1) according to one of claims 3 to 8, wherein the data receiver (200) comprises a module (130) for measuring the supply current for detecting variations in the series resistance of the transmission cable (3).
    [10" id="c-fr-0010]
    The in-line carrier transmission device (1) according to one of claims 3 to 9, wherein the data transmitter (100) is configured to allocate separate transmission time slots for the security-critical data. of the aircraft and the non-critical data to the safety of the aircraft.
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