As a general trend, the complexities of modern spacecraft are increasing to include more ambitious mission goals with tighter timing requirements and on-board autonomy. As a byproduct, the protective features that monitor the performance of these systems have also increased in scope and complexity. Given cost and schedule pressures, there is an increasing emphasis on understanding the behavior of the system at design time. Formal test-driven verification and validation (V&V) is rarely able to test the significant combinatorics of states, and often finds problems late in the development cycle forcing design changes that can be costly. This paper describes the approach the SMAP Fault Protection team has taken to address some of the above-mentioned issues.
Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission: Fault Management Design Analyses
AIAA Infotech@Aerospace 2013 Conference ; 2013 ; Boston, MA, United States
2013-08-19
Conference paper
No indication
English
Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission: Fault Management Design Analyses (AIAA 2013-5063)
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2013
|NASA's Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) Mission
NTRS | 2010
|