Software Fault Injection Testing of the Embedded Software of a Satellite Launch Vehicle

Author

Samuel, A. ; Jayalal, N. ; Valsa, B. ; Ignatious, C.A. ; Zachariah, J.

Author_Institution

Flight Software Quality, VSSC, Trivandrum, India

Volume

32

Issue

5

fYear

2013

fDate

Sept.-Oct. 2013

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

44

Abstract

The software performing navigation, guidance, control, and mission-sequencing functionalities embedded in the flight computer system (FCS) of a satellite launch vehicle must be highly dependable. The presence of faults in the embedded flight software affects its dependability and may even jeopardize the entire mission, resulting in a huge loss to the space agency concerned. There are many techniques available to achieve high dependability and can be classified under fault avoidance, fault removal and fault tolerance.

Keywords

aerospace control; control engineering computing; embedded systems; program testing; satellite navigation; software fault tolerance; FCS; control functionality; embedded flight software; fault avoidance; fault removal; fault tolerance; flight computer system; guidance functionality; mission-sequencing functionality; navigation functionality; satellite launch vehicle; software fault injection testing; space agency; Aeronautics engineering; Navigation; Satellites; Software engineering; Space missions;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Potentials, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-6648

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MPOT.2012.2236150

Filename

6589031