22–24 Oct 2013
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Contribution List

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  1. Mr Alberto Tobias (ESA)
    22/10/2013, 09:00
    Presentation
    Welcome Speech by Head of System, Software & Technology Department
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  2. Ms Bertilla Sinka (ESA/Data Systems Division), Mr Philippe Armbruster (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    22/10/2013, 09:20
    Presentation
  3. Mr Kjeld Hjortnaes (ESA/Software Systems Division)
    22/10/2013, 09:45
    SAVOIR (22 October AM)
  4. Mr Giorgio Magistrati (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    22/10/2013, 10:00
    SAVOIR (22 October AM)
    One of the first aim of the SAVOIR initiative is the definition of an avionics reference architecture meeting the needs of the various mission domains. Generic Specifications for the two following building blocks have been produced: On-Board Computer ( OBC) and Remote Terminal Unit (RTU). The two specifications have passed a review process. The presentation will recall the reference...
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  5. 22/10/2013, 11:00
    SAVOIR (22 October AM)
  6. Mr Torbjorn Hult (RUAG Space)
    22/10/2013, 12:00
    SAVOIR (22 October AM)
    The SAVOIR architecture includes a number of preferred data buses, point-to-point lines and discrete signals. These links are used to interconnect spacecraft platform equipment, such as OBC and RTU, with platform sensors and actuators and also used to connect the spacecraft payload to the spacecraft platform. However, the usage of each link is not defined in detail and some links are better...
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  7. Mr Nuno Silva (Critical Software)
    22/10/2013, 12:30
    SAVOIR (22 October AM)
    On-board computers (OBC) for space applications pose a major challenge for the industry due to their small production and limited in-service historical data (both for hardware and software). Thus, dependability statistical data, that can influence the specification, design and validation of OBCs, is quite limited. This study, initiated in the frame of ESA harmonization policy, represents the...
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  8. Mr Philippe Armbruster (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    22/10/2013, 12:50
  9. Mr Stuart Fowell (SCISYS)
    22/10/2013, 14:00
    SAVOIR (22 October AM)
    The presentation will summarise the requirements for SOIS Electronic Data Sheets for Onboard Devices, their planned usage in SAVOIR and NASA-cFE avionics architectures, the current status of prototyping by ESA, SCISYS and NASA, some of the technical and process issues to be addressed that have been thrown up, and finally the planned roadmap to the standardisation of their format by the CCSDS.
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  10. Mr Serge Valera (ESA/Software Systems Division)
    22/10/2013, 14:30
    SAVOIR (22 October AM)
    Over the last 10 years, the PUS standard has been widely used in Europe by many ECSS Agencies and Industrial partners. A new version of that standard is currently being produced by ECSS, that takes into account: - the lessons learned from using the PUS, including the need for standardizing proven additional services implemented in current missions and required for future missions; -the...
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  11. Mr Kjeld Hjortnaes (ESA/Software Systems Division)
    22/10/2013, 15:00
    SAVOIR (22 October AM)
  12. Mr Gianluca Furano (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    22/10/2013, 15:45
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
  13. Mr Holger Zeltwanger (CAN in Automation)
    22/10/2013, 15:50
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    Presentation
    The CAN physical layer is very robust and the data link layer protocol guarantees a reliable data exchange. This is why CAN has been successful in many different application fields. The keynote speech provides an overview about the use of CAN in the past and today. It also gives an outlook into the future: CAN FD and partial networking are the keywords.
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  14. Mr Christian Boleat (Astrium SAS)
    22/10/2013, 16:20
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    Presentation
    The ECSS-E-50-15C standard “CAN bus extension protocol” extends the standard CAN bus specification to cover the aspects required to satisfy the particular needs of spacecraft data handling systems. This presentation will provide an overview of the requirements of the draft standard together with practical examples of its application on projects currently in development at Astrium Satellites...
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  15. Mr Gianluca Furano (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    22/10/2013, 16:45
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    Presentation
    Standardization of on board command and control buses has achieved a good degree of maturity with the widespread adoption of MIL-STD-1553B and the increasing success of Spacewire. In this crowded space there is still room for other players in the sub-1Mbps range if we take into consideration some specific CAN bus characteristics that act as 'enablers' for some more modern architectures, where...
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  16. Mr Stephen Bury (ESA/ESTEC)
    22/10/2013, 17:20
  17. Mr Chris Taylor (ESA/Data Systems Division), Mr Gianluca Furano (ESA/Data Systems Division), Mr Giorgio Magistrati (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    22/10/2013, 17:30
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
  18. Mr Giorgio Magistrati (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    23/10/2013, 09:00
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
  19. Mr Alberto Valverde Carretero (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    23/10/2013, 09:10
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    The modularity of the ECSS CAN standard based on CANOpen opens a wide range of possibilities in terms of HW/SW partitioning schemes in its implementation. The standard can be fully implemented in HW (i.e. CCIPC and RCCIPC), fully implemented in SW using existing CANOpen stacks or anything in between. This presentation and the associated demo will analyze different scenarios, with different...
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  20. Mr Luca Fossati (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    23/10/2013, 09:20
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    ESA/ESTEC maintains and distributes under ESA licenses a small catalogue of IP Cores which comprise typical digital functions used in space applications.The ESA IP cores can be licensed for space research and/or commercial use,under specific conditions (depending on the IP ownership) to companies basedin ESA member and participant states.This talk will focus mostly on two of the IP-Cores...
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  21. Mr Frédéric Vidy (Vector)
    23/10/2013, 09:30
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    The idea of the CAN bus is getting 30 years old in 2013. Within this time the CAN bus has not only established itself as the standard communication protocol in automotive networks but is also in use in aerospace or industrial applications. Although there are also other bus systems used in these areas, the CAN bus will still keep its strong market position for quite a while. With the CAN-FD...
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  22. Mr Jan Andersson (Aeroflex Gaisler)
    23/10/2013, 10:10
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    The Controller Area Network (CAN) was initially created for automotive applications as a method for enabling robust serial communication. The CAN bus was identified by the European Space Agency (ESA) as a possible replacement for the On-Board Data Handling (OBDH) bus in the late '90s, with the SMART-1 satellite as the first successful example of its usage in an ESA mission. Although the OBDH...
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  23. Mr Vangelis Kollias (TELETEL SA)
    23/10/2013, 10:25
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    Presentation of the Protocol Validation System (PVS) by TELETEL, which is a new generation EGSE SCOE, already supporting SpaceWire and MIL-STD-1553, being now extended to support CAN. PVS can be used for rapid prototyping & evaluation of new network protocols/features, for interface simulation, functional testing and stress testing. Moreover it can be used for device simulation (SSMM, RTU,...
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  24. Mr Jean Dalenq (Astrium)
    23/10/2013, 11:05
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    Presentation
    A successful CAN bus for telecom payload needs to fulfill precisely the extreme satcom requirements: high reliability of electronic components, high availability of the system solution achieved by minor modifications of the system architecture. Considering all those constraints, physical layer, redundancy management and protocol have been tailored to define a robust, efficient and cheap CAN...
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  25. Mr Maurizio Caramia (Thales Alenia Space)
    23/10/2013, 11:25
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    Presentation
    This paper presents the on-going activities and solutions related to the development, research and standardization processes of the CAN Bus solutions carried out in the EXOMARS projects and studies where Thales Alenia Space Italy (TAS-I) is leading the industrial activities in collaboration with the European Space Agency. The CAN communication bus has been successfully used for many years in...
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  26. Mr Jacques Busseuil (Thales Alenia Space)
    23/10/2013, 11:45
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    The objective of this activity is the development of a ‘CAN solution’ to be used in platform and payload avionics of telecom satellites. The proposed CAN solution has to cover all the aspects related to the introduction of the CAN bus in telecom satellites, from the physical and protocol layer definition up to the test and validation procedure definition. A breadboard system fully ...
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  27. Mr Francesco Ortix (Temis)
    23/10/2013, 12:00
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    The suite of CAN bus and protocols has been developed to create a reliable, safety critical, deterministic time communication over automotive electronic box use for the complete management of stock cars. It has been demonstrated over time and by widespread diffusion on automotive market the effectiveness and efficiency of CAN protocol and electrical bus on safety critical systems (ABS...
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  28. Mr David Stanton (SSTL)
    23/10/2013, 12:20
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    SSTL have been using CAN bus as their primary method of transferring commands and telemetry around their spacecraft of over a decade. The use of CAN bus is at the heart of their nominal and non-nominal concept of operations. The architecture allows complete access to spacecraft systems by the ground segment independent of the spacecraft onboard computer to allow versatile strategies for...
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  29. Mr Chris Taylor (ESA/Data Systems Division), Mr Gianluca Furano (ESA/Data Systems Division), Mr Giorgio Magistrati (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    23/10/2013, 12:40
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
    Wrap up round table.
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  30. Prof. Hermann Kopetz (Technical University of Vienna)
    23/10/2013, 14:00
    Avionics Based on Ethernet Networks (23 October PM)
    This lecture starts by presenting some reasons for deterministic networks in high-dependability application, where the mean-time-to-fail (MTTF) of a critical system service must be higher than the MTTF of any of the constituent components. The required notion of determinism is examined and it is shown that predictable timeliness and consistent order are the important characteristics of a...
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  31. Mr Christian Fidi (TTTech Computertechnik AG)
    23/10/2013, 14:40
    Avionics Based on Ethernet Networks (23 October PM)
    The presentation will target the utilization of additional synchronous, time-triggered Ethernet quality-of service (QoS) enhancements in IEEE802 Ethernet and ARINC664 networks to support both bandwidth time-partitioning and system-wide (or system-level) time-partitioning. Ethernet-based system architectures with time-driven communication capabilities enable tight control of jitter and strict...
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  32. Mr George W. Eger (Locheed Martin)
    23/10/2013, 15:10
    Avionics Based on Ethernet Networks (23 October PM)
  33. Mr Jens Hartmann (Astrium EADS)
    23/10/2013, 16:00
    Avionics Based on Ethernet Networks (23 October PM)
    The user requirements on data throughput and –speed of avionic busses are calling for new media. Simplification and reuse of architectures and components to realize cost reduction are requested. In the past, different bus types were used to fulfill the technical requirements: on one hand determinism and exactly time correlated data , on the other hand high performance data management for...
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  34. Mr Guillaume Javellaud (ESA/HQ)
    23/10/2013, 16:30
    Avionics Based on Ethernet Networks (23 October PM)
    Ethernet communication is at the base of the trade-offs of the future launcher programmes. These different programmes (ESA-FLPP, CNES-AvioniqueX, Ariane6) will be presented, together with the requirements specific to the data bus and telemetry. Trade-offs will be exposed and discussed (e.g. mil1553 vs AFDX vs TTEthernet
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  35. Mr Anders Petersen (RUAG Space AB)
    23/10/2013, 17:00
    Avionics Based on Ethernet Networks (23 October PM)
    This presentation will give an overview of RUAG Space AB undertaking in three different studies within FLPP and AvionicX and give our experience in using TTEthernet as a launcher communication network and how well it fit in such an architecture. Three different architectures and different implementations of TTEthernet have been studied, from a software implementation in the first study to more...
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  36. Mr Chris Taylor (ESA/Data Systems Division), Mr Giorgio Magistrati (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    23/10/2013, 17:30
  37. Mr Guillermo Ortega (ESA/Control Systems Division)
    24/10/2013, 08:30
    High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)
  38. Ms Luisa Innocenti (ESA-LAU-SF)
    24/10/2013, 08:45
    High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)
    Studies at NASA and ESA indicate that the only means of sustaining the environment at a safe level for space operations will be by active removal of currently existing mass in orbit. Targets selected for active removal should have a high mass (as these targets have the largest environmental impact in case of collision), a high collision probability (i.e. they should be in densely populated...
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  39. Mr Antonio Tramtola (TAS-I)
    24/10/2013, 09:05
    High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)
    Landing on Mars, Moon and Asteroids: needed computational power and possible platform architecture. Landing on planets is a task which complexity depends on required accuracy. In the current Exomars project the accuracy is in the order of tens of Km: GNC algorithms, as developed by TAS-I for this type of missions, do not require significant computational power. They can be executed by a LEON...
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  40. Mr Josef Sommer (Astrium Bremen)
    24/10/2013, 09:25
    High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)
    The imperilment in space by debris or incapacitated spacecraft, in particular in nearly polar low earth orbits, has materialized latest after the collision between an Iridium and a superannuated Kosmos satellite in February 2009. Today all space agencies are working more or less intensive on concepts for space waste disposal. A key technology for this is a navigation system, which allows the...
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  41. Mr Luca Fossati (ESA/Data Systems Division), Mr Roland Trautner (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    24/10/2013, 09:45
    High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)
    Future GNC systems feature increasingly complex functionality, requiring fast and efficient processing units and equally efficient interconnection to feed them with high rate sensor data. For what concerns the former point, ESA is working on complementary architectures spanning from a multi-core general purpose microprocessor (NGMP) to more specialised devices. This is complemented by the...
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  42. Mr Salvador Trujillo (IKERLAN)
    24/10/2013, 10:20
    High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)
    The presentation is based on the experience of MultiPARTES, a research project aimed at developing tools and solutions for building trusted embedded systems with mixed criticality components on multicore platforms. The approach is based on developing an innovative open-source multicore-platform virtualization layer based on the XtratuM hypervisor. A software development methodology and its...
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  43. Mr Valentin Barrena (GMV)
    24/10/2013, 10:50
    High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)
  44. Mr Alexander Cropp (ESA/Control Systems Division)
    24/10/2013, 11:20
    High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)
  45. Mr Andreas Jung (ESA/Software Systems Division)
    24/10/2013, 13:00
    Software Factory (24 October PM)
    This short introduction to the software factories session sets up the context that has led to addressing this topic. Many project issues, often system or schedule ones, materialize in the software. To cope with them, an efficient measure is to reduce architecture complexity. This leads to the definition of software reference architecture, expressed with components, engineered with models and...
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  46. Mr Gotz Botterwerk (LERO)
    24/10/2013, 13:10
    Software Factory (24 October PM)
    This presentation results from an academic approach to product lines performed by a research institute from experience in non-space domains.
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  47. Mr Etienne Juliot (Obeo)
    24/10/2013, 13:30
    Software Factory (24 October PM)
    Automation of software engineering is done, in other domains than space, beyond automatic code generation. This presentation highlights experiences such as generation of the system configuration from product lines, early architecture definition and validation, links with system engineering. Use cases from the train, the aeronautic and the military domains are presented with an innovative way...
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  48. Mr Maxime Perrotin (ESA/Software Systems Division)
    24/10/2013, 14:00
    Software Factory (24 October PM)
    The Savoir-Faire concepts have been prototyped into a chain of tools. The COrDeT reference architecture component model is described with a Domain Specific Language that has been used to produce an editor. The model is enriched into a detailed design through model transformation rules. The TASTE tool integrates and generates the code, the monitoring and control screens, the links with the...
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  49. Mr Emidio Stani (UNISYS)
    24/10/2013, 14:20
    Software Factory (24 October PM)
    Software development involves people, methodologies and tools. Not only it is important to have the right tool for the right project but also to share efficiently the information inside the team, which therefore needs to be well organized. Sharing best practices between teams improve efficiency in the delivery. The CSDE (Collaborative Software Development Environment) platform is based on a...
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  50. Salor Moral Nieves (Vitrociset)
    24/10/2013, 14:40
    Software Factory (24 October PM)
    Coding and testing represents a substantial part of a software project. Although manual coding allows greater flexibility and control in what is being developed, it implies manual testing and regression testing, which costs time. Therefore, code automation is becoming a necessity during development. Thanks to the use of libraries and tools implementing the concept of software factories, part...
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  51. Mr Alain Rossignol (Astrium)
    24/10/2013, 15:15
    Software Factory (24 October PM)
    This presentation shows the vision and needs of system integrators about software engineering automation.
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  52. Mr Gerald Garcia (Thales)
    24/10/2013, 15:30
    Software Factory (24 October PM)
    This presentation shows the vision and needs of system integrators about software engineering automation.
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  53. Michael Brahm (OHB)
    24/10/2013, 15:45
    Software Factory (24 October PM)
    This presentation shows the vision and needs of system integrators about software engineering automation.
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  54. Mr Jean-Loup TERRAILLON (ESA/Software Systems Division)
    24/10/2013, 16:00
    High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)
    The round table invite audience to build on the presentations in order to reply to some questions related to the strategy that Agencies and Industry should define in terms of software engineering automation, model based engineering life cycle and process, industrial and business needs, and tool support.
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  55. CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)
  56. Mr Kjeld Hjortnaes (Head of Software Systems Division)
    SAVOIR (22 October AM)
  57. Mr Giorgio Magistrati (ESA/Data Systems Division)
    CAN Bus in Space (22 October PM & 23 October AM)