The Mars Science Laboratory developed the WorkStation TestSet (WSTS) to support flight software development. The WSTS is the non-real-time flight avionics simulator that is designed to be completely software-based and run on a workstation class Linux PC. This provides flight software developers with their own virtual avionics testbed and allows device-level and functional software testing when hardware testbeds are either not yet available or have limited availability. The WSTS has successfully off-loaded many flight software development activities from the project testbeds. At the writing of this paper, the WSTS has averaged an order of magnitude more usage than the project's hardware testbeds.
Workstation-Based Avionics Simulator to Support Mars Science Laboratory Flight Software Development
2008 AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialists Conference ; 2008 ; Honolulu, HI, United States
2008-08-18
Conference paper
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English
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