The Curiosity Rover, currently operating on Mars, contains flight software onboard to autonomously handle aspects of system fault protection. Over 1000 monitors and 39 responses are present in the flight software. Orchestrating these behaviors is the flight software's fault protection engine. In this paper, we discuss the engine's design, responsibilities, and present some lessons learned for future missions.


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    Title :

    The Curiosity Mars Rover's Fault Protection Engine


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT 2014) ; 2014 ; Laurel, MD, United States


    Publication date :

    2014-09-24


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English