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www.vanguardcanada.com octoBer/noVeMBer 2014 43 T TeCHNOlOGy WAtcH Quantum Theory Group at Dalhousie University and only morphed into a business in 2012, Vaz explained. "Our core man- date is focused on developing the most advanced analysis tools, on the most advanced hardware, to help validate the world's most complex cyber-physical systems." The company was created at an opportune time. A surprising number of those "cyber-physical systems" are being built into the current and upcoming generation of civilian and military aircraft. One of the fi rst "cyber-physical systems" was the General Dy- namics F-16 Fighting Falcon, which was intentionally designed to be aerodynamically unstable to increase maneuverability. Of course, since a less stable design will have a faster response to control inputs, but also be more diffi cult for the pilot to control, the F-16 made use of an automated control system connecting all the aircraft control surfaces which operated without pilot input. This freed the pilot to worry less about crashing and more about the primary mission. The new system worked so well, it was subsequently adapted for other aircraft as part of a "fl y by wire" system. Current designs utilizing variations of this system include civil- ian aircraft such as the Airbus A320, the Boeing 777, Boeing 787, Bombardier CSeries and the Dassault Falcon 7X business jet; military fi ghters and bombers such as the F-18/22, the Das- sault Rafale and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter; and even helicop- ters such as the V-22 Osprey, the RAH-66 Comanche and the Sikorsky S-92. And with control surfaces on modern aircraft now connected electronically instead of just mechanically, software testing is sud- denly a vital adjunct in the process of supporting traditional test pilots. "Thirty to forty percent of modern aerospace design and devel- opment work is related to testing," says Vaz, "and we've built a tool-set powerful enough to validate and verify complex, interac- tive systems at the beginning of their aerospace design cycle, when the cost of revision is lowest." But the QRA tools aren't just for aircraft. Industry also requires useful tools for the testing and validation of the "industrial internet," a term coined by General Electric a few years back to describe the integration of complex physical ma- chinery with networked sensors where the collected data is used to automatically adjust and optimize operations. Even from a ground combat perspective, the concept of a "con- nected battlefi eld," with rugged, embedded computers and sen- sors tracking and improving the effectiveness of both soldiers and their equipment, but capable of providing real time, actionable updates to commanders, is not a new thing, especially to anyone who watched the 1986 James Cameron movie, Aliens. Given the processing requirements for testing the enormous amounts of data collected as part of the testing processes; it's sur- prising to note that the QRA software does not require the types of quantum computers being developed at places like Burnaby, B.C.-based D-Wave Systems in order to effectively function, al- though they can be utilized when the architecture offers a per- formance boost. According to Vaz, "we currently have access to D-Wave hard- ware along with hardware from others such as IBM, but we are not limited to any one specifi c confi guration. 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