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An eCos based flight software for a nanosatellite
Thesis (MScEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
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| author | Mthembu, Sifiso Selby |
| author2 | Gerber, H. R. |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/1533 An eCos based flight software for a nanosatellite Mthembu, Sifiso Selby Gerber, H. R. University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Engineering. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Nanosatellites -- Control systems Dissertations -- Electronic engineering Theses -- Electronic engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Thesis (MScEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. The nanosatellite is build-up of subsystems and payloads (defined as satellite nodes) connected together into the OBC using CAN bus as the main communication protocol. The flight software application is required to run within the eCos environment on the OBC to monitor and control satellite nodes. The ground station must generate commands and send them to the satellite in space. The application is developed to validate, schedule and dispatch the commands to the satellite nodes at appropriate times. Each node manager, in the flight software, is required to execute the response messages from its respective satellite node. The housekeeping and error recovery data files are defined to convey useful information about satellite status to the user and can be downloaded to the ground station. The flight software is developed using POSIX functions supported by eCos. Although it is not yet ready for real operation in space, the algorithm that can be used for full development is examined and approved. 2009-03-02T12:06:12Z 2010-06-01T08:26:50Z 2009-03-02T12:06:12Z 2010-06-01T08:26:50Z 2009-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1533 en University of Stellenbosch application/pdf Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| spellingShingle | Nanosatellites -- Control systems Dissertations -- Electronic engineering Theses -- Electronic engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mthembu, Sifiso Selby An eCos based flight software for a nanosatellite |
| title | An eCos based flight software for a nanosatellite |
| title_full | An eCos based flight software for a nanosatellite |
| title_fullStr | An eCos based flight software for a nanosatellite |
| title_full_unstemmed | An eCos based flight software for a nanosatellite |
| title_short | An eCos based flight software for a nanosatellite |
| title_sort | ecos based flight software for a nanosatellite |
| topic | Nanosatellites -- Control systems Dissertations -- Electronic engineering Theses -- Electronic engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1533 |
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