Descrizione del progetto
Una tecnologia basata su ricetrasmettitori ottici per migliorare le prestazioni a bordo di aerei e satelliti
I sistemi di monitoraggio strutturale in servizio sono ampiamente adottati in applicazioni aeronautiche allo scopo di valutare le prestazioni e l’integrità delle strutture composite degli aeromobili ed effettuarne il monitoraggio in situ e in tempo reale. Il processo di assemblaggio, integrazione e collaudo che comprende le apparecchiature elettriche di supporto a terra è fondamentale nell’industria spaziale, poiché consente agli sviluppatori di satelliti o vettori spaziali di integrare e convalidare le funzioni elettriche prima del lancio. Alla luce dell’intenzione di operatori e produttori di satelliti di migliorare le prestazioni di elaborazione a bordo, la tecnologia basata su ricetrasmettitori ottici sembra essere adatta a rispondere a tali esigenze. Il progetto RYTHMS, finanziato dall’UE, integrerà l’optoelettronica nelle comunicazioni dei dati di aeromobili e satelliti, sviluppando e comprovando un ricetrasmettitore multicanale di trasmissione dati ad alta velocità, una piattaforma generica per banchi di prova, strumenti e metodologia.
Obiettivo
For aeronautic applications, in-service Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is now established as a key technique to assess the performance and the integrity of composite aircraft structures for real-time in situ monitoring. In space industry, the Assembly Integration and Test including Electrical Ground Support Equipment is an essential tool enabling a satellite or space launcher developer to integrate and validate the electrical functions of its spacecraft before the launching process. In addition satellite operators and worldwide SatCom manufacturers are willing to improve the on-board processing capacity, functionality and flexibility. In this context, opto-transceiver technology becomes a major building block regarding the highlighted aeronautic, space and ground telecommunication needs.
The RYTHMS project aims to bring the benefits of optoelectronics to aircraft and satellite data communications supporting multiple payload networks and improving performance (connectivity, flexibility, bandwidth, and number of channels). Especially, the development of a multi-channel high data rate transceiver (25 Gb/s per channel) will be demonstrated thanks to a dedicated optical test bench in order to establish the probabilistic reliability model of such products.
To satisfy this very innovative challenge and to push back the frontiers of the current state-of-the-art, RYTHMS’ consortium involves industrial partners and academics holding the adequate heritage to elaborate and validate reliability model of high data rate optoelectronic transceivers for use in Aeronautics and Space systems. RYTHMS will develop an advanced generation of optoelectronic transceiver modules, a generic test bench platform and tools and methodology to validate such modules in compliance with the general requirements of DO-160 Standard. A set of extensive electro-optical characterization tests and an accelerated tests DoE optimized program to predict the transceiver reliability will be carried out.
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringastronautical engineeringspacecraft
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicsoptoelectronics
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaeronautical engineering
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
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