The project has successfully achieved its two main goals in terms of technical development, demonstrating the feasibility of the technical solutions and highlighting the main strengths with respect to the competitors.
• A modular, MPSoC-based avionics software execution platform (MIA) was developed and validated. It includes a hypervisor (XtratuM/NG), RTEMS OS, and abstraction layers (OSAL and PSP), enabling flexible deployment of avionics applications.
For the MIA platform, the main achievement was the demonstration of the implementation of AFTU use-case in a high efficient way, facilitating the integration of SW, both manually or autocoded, and also supporting the real-time debugging. This has been translated into a considerable reduction of time for the integration and verification in comparison with other SW approaches.
• An AFTU demonstrator was designed, implemented, and integrated into the MIA platform (navigation and mission rules functionalities). The AFTU demonstrator also included the real sensors, stimulated through the Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) developed.
A significant achievement of this project is confirmation that the AFTU SW is fully user- configurable, offering a high degree of flexibility. This adaptability allows the unit to meet diverse operational requirements ensuring compliance with user-defined mission constraints and to particularize for each launch scenario. The successful testing campaign demonstrates the maturity of the system and its readiness to further refinement. This is the main added value of the AFTU solution proposed within SAFEST, with respect to other competitors.
