• DocumentCode
    180958
  • Title

    The Curiosity Mars Rover´s Fault Protection Engine

  • Author

    Benowitz, Ed

  • Author_Institution
    Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    24-26 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    62
  • Lastpage
    66
  • Abstract
    The Curiosity Rover, currently operating on Mars, contains flight software onboard to autonomously handle aspects of system fault protection. Over 1000 monitors and 39 responses are present in the flight software. Orchestrating these behaviorsis the flight software´s fault protection engine. In this paper, we discuss the engine´s design, responsibilities, and present some lessons learned for future missions.
  • Keywords
    Mars; aerospace computing; fault diagnosis; planetary rovers; MSL; Mars Science Laboratory mission; curiosity Mars rover fault protection engine; flight software fault protection engine; onboard flight software; system fault protection; Engines; Fault protection; Hardware; Mars; Monitoring; Software; Space vehicles; Curiosity Rover; MSL; Mars Science Laboratory; fault protection; flight software; mars rover;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Laurel MD
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SMC-IT.2014.16
  • Filename
    6979146
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=180958