Digital Shadowing: Detecting In-Flight Software Drift and Cyber-Physical Tampering

Core aerospace engineering and protocols for In-Flight Digital Shadowing.

Catching Latent Software Bugs and Cyber Intrusions

Intermittent software race conditions or subtle sensor spoofing attacks may produce outputs that appear plausible to traditional simple threshold checks while drifting dangerously from true flight dynamics.

Parallel Ground-Based Digital Shadowing

AvionicsDigitalTwins feeds downlinked flight telemetry into an identical cloud-hosted virtual twin in real time. If the physical aircraft's control surfaces move in a manner that diverges from the mathematical model's output, ground controllers receive an immediate alert indicating potential sensor corruption or software anomaly.

Real-Time Telemetry Synchronization: Feeding physical pilot inputs into the virtual twin simultaneously.
Discrepancy Tolerance Thresholds: Flagging divergence between physical and virtual flight outputs.
Cyber-Physical Intrusion Detection: Catching unauthorized flight control commands or malicious firmware modifications.
False Positive Suppression: Accounting for atmospheric sensor noise and wind turbulence.

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