Conveners
On-Board Data Processing Systems and Architectures
- Thomas Gärtner (DLR)
Selecting the right technologies for a Next Generation Data Handling System is of significant importance – especially for a mission of such kind like the Deep Space Gateway Habitat and Esprit modules.
Furthermore, the design and verification processes shall be simplified and standardized to allow more efficient development and maintenance.
Intelligent devices, distributed modular avionics,...
The development of High Performance Processing capability is necessary to face future space application needs. One of the technology path explored by Airbus Defence and Space is to build generic and flexible platforms enabling the use of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) components through appropriate and scalable radiations effects mitigation techniques. The ESA study “High performance COTS...
Reconfigurable architectures can enhance on-board processing with unprecedented levels of flexibility, enabling the adaptation of the system to functional and/or fault-tolerance requirements that may change during mission lifetime. When combined with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices, they lead to cost-effective solutions which can benefit from state-of-the-art devices and technologies....
RUAG Space has designed a very powerful and flexible processing board - Lynx. This product is ready to meet tomorrows processing needs driven by increased digitalisation and new services such as Software Defined Radio, real-time Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence and enhanced Compression techniques.
Lynx is designed around a highly performant Processor connected via PCI-express to a...
The new RTEMS version 5 provides full support for SMP on real-time space applications. GMV with its TSP/IMA AIR hypervisor virtualizes RTEMS 5 and fully supports RTEMS SMP implementation on multicore On-board Computers, opening a door to optimal performant solutions for the application of Remote Terminal Units and also in Buses & Communication protocols.
GMV with AIR is currently...
We present the Data Processing Units (DPUs) based on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) electronic devices for two different instruments aboard of the Sunrise-III stratospheric balloon solar observatory. The DPU performs the entire high-level control of each instrument and carries out the on-board data processing which consists in a very demanding image acquisition and processing real-time...
Autonomous Vision-Based Navigation in a landing spacecraft involves very demanding processing tasks as it shall be executed at higher frequency than what a space-qualified processor can provide, forcing the implementation of the algorithms in ad-hoc HW-accelerated solution. HW/SW co-design is employed in order to use FPGA as a HW accelerator to implement the most computationally demanding...