• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 2014

Flight software operated on the on-board computers in the satellite has requirements such as real-time, high reliability. These requirements make dependency between the flight software and operating environments. Further, whenever a new system is built, such problem drives that all flight software are redeveloped. Thus, the dependency problem between them should be solved. And the problem can be resolved by improving the portability of the flight software. In order to improve the portability it is required to minimize the porting cost. In this paper, we classify the portability with the portability achieving methods. Using the classified portability, we propose a platform architecture that is based on the IMA concept and provides various portability capabilities. The proposed architecture enables us to solve the problem about the development of the flight software.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10c
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• pp.230-232
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• 1999

KOMPSAT(KOrea Multi-Purpose SATEllite) Flight Software[2]의 개발 단계에서 통합 및 시험, 검증 시험을 위해 실제 시스템과 유사한 환경을 제공하는 개발도구로서 STB(Software Test BED)를 개발하였으며 STB 구성중에서 Command/Telemetry (CMD/TLM) 테스트를 위해 개발한 Command Generator / Telemetry Analyzer에 관한 내용을 본 논문에서 설명하고자 한다. 통신간에 사용되는 프로토콜은 [1]에서 언급한 바와 같이 CCSDS 프로토콜을 따르고 모든 관련된 Command 와 Telemetry 형식 또한 [1]에서 언급한 바와 같다. 이 구현된 소프트웨어를 이용하여 Flight Soaftware내의 CMD/TLM 처리 소프트웨어의 기능시험과 검증시험을 수행하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.7-18
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• 2014

Flight software operated on the on-board computers in the satellite has requirements such as real-time and high reliability. These requirements make dependency between the flight software and operating environments. Further, whenever a new system is built, such problem drives that all flight software are redeveloped. Thus, the dependency between them should be removed. And the work can be achieved by improving the portability of the flight software. In this paper, we propose a platform architecture based on the IMA architecture. The platform architecture is a hybrid one built by blending two kinds of realizations of the IMA architecture in order to maximize portability. In addition, we implement a prototype system and analyze the execution results of the system to justify the proposed architecture. The proposed architecture enables us to remove the dependency between fight software and operating environments.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.92-99
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• 2016

AIS(Automatic Identification System) is an vessel traffic management system which exchanges vessel data with other nearby ships, AIS base stations using VHF band. A domestic AIS base station is located along coast lines or island. So it is difficult to collect vessel data from the ocean. To solve this problem, we adopted AIS payload on the low earth orbit satellite. The AIS payload on the satellite is interfaced with OBC(On-Board Computer) via UART and the FSW(Satellite Flight Software) manages it. The FSW have to receive AIS command from ground station and forward to AIS payload. Similarly FSW have to receive response, OBP, OGP data from AIS payload and it is downlink to the ground station. So in this paper we describe the FSW design & implementation for AIS payload.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.11-19
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• 2023

Drones, which were early operated by remote control, have evolved to enable autonomous flight by combining various sensors and software tools. In particular, autonomous flight of drones was possible since the application of GNSS-RTK (global navigation satellite system with real-time kinematic positioning), a precision satellite navigation technology. For instance, unmanned drone delivery based on GNSS-RTK data was demonstrated for pizza delivery in Korea for the first time in 2021. However, the vulnerabilities of GNSS-RTK should be overcome for delivery drones to be commercialized. In particular, jamming in the navigation system and low positioning accuracy in urban areas should be addressed. Solving these two problems can lead to stable flight, takeoff, and landing of drones in urban areas, and the corresponding solutions are expected to establish a hybrid positioning technology. We discuss current trends in hybrid positioning technology that can either replace or complement GNSS-RTK for stable drone autonomous flight.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.84-87
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• 2008

ATTOL is a software unit testing tool produced by the ATTOL Testware SA in France. It automates the entire software unit testing process: test plan template and test program generation, test program execution, test result analysis and test report generation. ATTOL is suited for the development of embedded software as it allows programmers to operate in native and cross development environments. Particularly, it is used for the development of the flight software which is embedded in the Communication Ocean Meteorological Satellite (COMS). As the flight software is mission-critical, it requires the strict software quality and high testing constraints. The flight software of COMS is verified by ATTOL in native and cross platforms. In 2002, ATTOL was taken over by the IDM Rational Software and has been supplied with the name of Test RealTime (TestRT). The test process of TestRT becomes different from that of ATTOL as TestRT provides the new functionalities that were absent from ATTOL. TestRT provides the new features in the test script language, as well. In this paper, we compare the test process of ATTOL to TestRT With an example of COMS and explain what has been changed in the test script language.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.141-148
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• 2011

LEO satellites have many heaters for thermal control, such as bus module heaters, payload heaters and battery internal heaters. Some of these heaters are controlled by thermisters, and others can be controlled by flight software. These heaters are divided into various types of group according to the location, telemetry variables, flight software logic, power distribution, etc. Thus, it is difficult to find out which heaters are included in a certain group and modify heater control logic for a new/other software developers. This document describes about the general/special control logic for satellite heaters and groups/arrays for heaters.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.70-74
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• 2003

Recently, many kinds of satellites are developed in many countries. The satellite contains various data, such as hardware status data attitude date an information, etc. And the ground station must check these data for successful operation These data is called as telemetry. Flight software is responsible for the telemetry processing. In KOMPSAT(Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite)-2, the telemetry processing logic takes the table-driven method to make satellite data flow efficient In this paper, the telemetry processing in KOMPSAT-2 is described Verification test and integration test are being carried out for the FSW of KOMPSAT-2.

• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.40-47
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• 2009

In this paper, current industrial trend of simulator development which is widely spreaded and performed in globally is introduced. Usage of satellite simulator is becoming an essential choice since the complexity of satellite and mission is being continuously increased. Satellite simulation brings reduction of satellite development cost and of period which is consumed by test on satellite development for various phases. Further more, it can be used to reduce the development period of satellite since developed resource and knowledge is possible to be delivered to next program effectively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1240-1241
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• 2008

저궤도 관측위성은 주어진 임무를 수행하기 위해 정해진 궤도에서 다양한 작업들을 수행하게 된다. 위성에 장착되어 있는 각종 센서들을 이용하여 자세를 제어하거나 전지를 충전시키고 지상 명령 및 저장되어 있는 명령에 따라 다양한 동작을 취하게 된다. 또한 각종 module들을 제어하기 위해 해당 module에 대해 주기적으로 pulse를 보내어 이를 제어하는 작업도 수행한다. 이때 수행되는 작업의 내용이나 위성의 상태를 정확히 파악하기 위해서는 지상과 위성에서 사용되는 시간이 동기가 되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 GPS의 신호를 이용하여 위성의 제어 및 상태를 파악하기 위해 사용되는 기준 시간 동기화 방안에 대해 설명하도록 한다.