7th ESA Workshop on Avionics, Data, Control and Software Systems - ADCSS 2013

Session

Processing needs for advanced GNC Systems

24 Oct 2013, 08:30

Newton (European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC))

Conveners

Processing needs for advanced GNC Systems

• Guillermo Ortega (ESA/Control Systems Division)

Description

Advanced avionics

1. Introduction

Mr Guillermo Ortega (ESA/Control Systems Division)

24/10/2013, 08:30

High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)

2. User cases: Active Debris Removal

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...

38. User cases: Landing on the Moon, Mars, and asteroid

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...

39. Implementation options: navigation sensing suite

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...

40. Implementation options: CPU's, busses, networks

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...

41. Implementation options: software

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...

42. Implementation options: testing, verification and validation

Mr Valentin Barrena (GMV)

24/10/2013, 10:50

High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)

43. Wrap up and Open discussion: do we have the technology available?

Mr Alexander Cropp (ESA/Control Systems Division)

24/10/2013, 11:20

High Performance Computing for GNC (24 October AM)