Advanced Information Processing System: Hosting of Advanced Guidance, Navigation and Control Algorithms on Aips Using Aster

By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This program demonstrated the integration of a number of technologies that can increase the availability and reliability of launch vehicles while lowering costs. Availability is increased with an advanced guidance algorithm that adapts trajectories in real-time. Reliability is increased with fault-tolerant computers and communication protocols. Costs are reduced by automatically generating code and documentation. This program was realized through the cooperative efforts of academia, industry, and government. The NASA-LaRC coordinated the effort, while Draper performed the integration. Georgia Institute of Technology supplied a weak Hamiltonian finite element method for optimal control problems. Martin Marietta used MATLAB to apply this method to a launch vehicle (FENOC). Draper supplied the fault-tolerant computing and software automation technology. The fault-tolerant technology includes sequential and parallel fault-tolerant processors (FTP & FTPP) and authentication protocols (AP) for communication. Fault-tolerant technology was incrementally incorporated. Development culminated with a heterogeneous network of workstations and fault-tolerant computers using AP. Draper's software automation system, ASTER, was used to specify a static guidance system based on FENOC, navigation, flight control (GN&C), models, and the interface to a user interface for mission control. ASTER generated Ada code for GN&C and C code for models. An algebraic transform engine (ATE) was developed to automatically translate MATLAB scripts into ASTER. Brenner, Richard and Lala, Jaynarayan H. and Nagle, Gail A. and Schor, Andrei and Turkovich, John Unspecified Center DATA PROCESSING; FAULT TOLERANCE; LAUNCH VEHICLES; NUMERICAL CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPACECRAFT GUIDANCE; TRAJECTORY CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FLIGHT CONTROL; PARALLEL PROCESSING (COMPUTERS); PROTOCOL (COMPUTERS); REAL TIME OPERATION

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1731245882
• ISBN13: 9781731245885
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"