Title :
Self-healing avionics for starships
Author :
LaForge, Laurence E.
Author_Institution :
The Right Stuff of Tahoe Inc., Reno, NV, USA
Abstract :
Imagine interstellar missions lasting five times your lifespan. Our spacecraft approaches Alpha Centauri, plans to sample soil from a crater on a moon of the second planet, and lands a rover that burrows beneath the crater´s surface. From the perspective of self-healing architectures and algorithms, we describe opportunities and challenges that are key to launching, within the next forty years, star-ships that are truly autonomous
Keywords :
aerospace computing; avionics; computer architecture; fault tolerant computing; space vehicle electronics; Alpha Centauri; autonomous starship; fault tolerance; interstellar mission; multicomputer architecture; self-healing avionics; software algorithm; Aerospace electronics; Computer architecture; Fault diagnosis; Gold; NASA; Nose; Planets; Propulsion; Space technology; Space vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2000 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Big Sky, MT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5846-5
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2000.878525
