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Real-time parameter control in space vehicles: A parallel architecture and the protocols

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Computing in the 90's (Great Lakes CS 1989)

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A parallel processor architecture is presented in this paper for the real-time engine and vehicle guidance control in a modern spacecraft. The system is designed to be fault-tolerant and will give diagnostic messages to aid repair. The architecture is based on the multiple shared bus concept. Multiple buses increase fault-tolerance and will enable computation of complex control equations within the required time frame. Each processor stage has a priority queue and any process that requires processing is inserted into the priority queue, if the current process under execution has a higher priority than the new process. Protocols are designed to run various routines on different processor stages under a prioritized system.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oakland University, 48309-4401, Rochester, Michigan

    Sarma R. Vishnubhotla

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Naveed A. Sherwani Elise de Doncker John A. Kapenga

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Vishnubhotla, S.R. (1991). Real-time parameter control in space vehicles: A parallel architecture and the protocols. In: Sherwani, N.A., de Doncker, E., Kapenga, J.A. (eds) Computing in the 90's. Great Lakes CS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 507. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0038496

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