Descrizione del progetto
Nuovi strumenti di programmazione per semplificare la progettazione dei satelliti di domani
La progettazione dei satelliti sta diventando sempre più complessa. Per affrontare questa sfida, il settore spaziale sta cercando proattivamente metodi e strumenti innovativi basati su vari modelli dell’Industria 4.0. Ciononostante, queste tecnologie si trovano dinanzi a molte grandi sfide per quanto concerne il livello software, le tecniche di progettazione e la potenza di calcolo della piattaforma hardware. Il progetto METASAT, finanziato dall’UE, intende sviluppare e testare una toolchain intesa alla progettazione di moduli software per i livelli hardware/software che vengono ritenuti soluzioni promettenti. Alla luce dell’attuale aumento della complessità, la nuova toolchain di progettazione ridurrà al minimo il tempo e i costi associati allo sviluppo di nuovi sistemi, stimolando così la competitività e l’innovazione.
Obiettivo
The space domain, as many other engineering sectors, is actively considering novel methods and tools based on artificial intelligence, Digital Twins, virtual design and testing, and other Industry 4.0 concepts, in order to manage the increased complexity of the design of upcoming satellites. Nevertheless, especially from the satellite on-board software engineering point of view, these technologies require a solid ground to be built upon. First of all, the computational power of the hardware platform must meet the needs of the advanced algorithms running on top of it. The software layer too must both allow an efficient use of the hardware resources and at the same time guarantee non-functional properties such as dependability in compliance with ECSS standards. Finally, the design methods need to adapt to the specific challenges posed by both the increased complexity of the hardware/software layers and the Industry 4.0 concepts.
The METASAT vision is that a design methodology based on Model-Based engineering jointly with the use of open architecture hardware constitutes that solid ground. To reach its vision, METASAT will leverage existing software virtualisation layers (e.g. hypervisors), that already provide guarantees in terms of standards compliance, on top of high-performance computing platforms based on open hardware architectures. The focus of the project will be on the development of a toolchain to design software modules for this hardware/software layer. Without such measures the time and cost of developing new systems could become prohibitive as system complexity grows, reducing competitiveness, innovation, and potentially dependability across the industry.
A high quality and complementary consortium comprising knowledge generators (IKL, BSC and ALES), plus an SME technology integrator (FEN) and an end user from the space sector (OHB), will be able to test in a real scenario the new design toolchain that will enable the runtime deployment of software module
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
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