• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.127-133
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• 2014

In this paper, we present the design, functions and performance analysis of the virtual machine (VM) based on the Lua interpreter for On-Board Control Procedure Execution Environment (OEE). The development of the OEE has been required in order to operate the lunar explorer mission autonomously which is planned by Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) autonomously. The concept of On-Board Control Procedure (OBCP) is already being applied to the deep space missions with a long propagation delay and a limited data transmission capacity since it ensure he autonomy of the mission without the ground intervention. The interpreter is the execution engine in the VM and it interpreters high-level programming codes line by line and executes the VM instructions. So the execution speed is very more slower than that of natively compiled codes. In order to overcome it, we design and implement OEE using register-based Lua interpreter for execution engine in OEE. We present experimental results on a range of additional hardware configurations such as usages of cache and floating point unit. We expect those to utilized to the OBCP scheduling policy and the system with Lua interpreter.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06b
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• pp.361-363
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• 2011

인공위성 탑재 컴퓨터는 위성 운영의 핵심 서브 시스템으로, 탑재 컴퓨터에 내장되는 OBS (On-Board Software) 의 복잡도가 증하고, 새로운 프로세서가 지속적으로 채택됨에 따라 재사용 가능한 소프트웨어의 필요성이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 소프트웨어의 재활용성을 제고하는 방법 중 하나로 Java VM과 유사한 가상머신인 SpaceApp VM을 제안하고 이를 구현하였다. SpaceApp 은 SpaceApp VM이 실행시키는 프로그램으로 Java의 WORA (Write Once Read Anywhere)의 개념을 위성 분야에 적용시킨 것이다. 본 연구에서는 SpaceApp VM의 설계와 개발에 대하여 설명한다.