Software Frameworks and Embedded Control Systems

✍ Scribed by Alessandro Pasetti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2231
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although framework technology has proven its worth as a software reuse technique in many domains, there have been reservations regarding its application in embedded systems, mostly due to limited CPU and memory resources. Recent hardware advances, however, have changed this picture.
This book shows how object-oriented software frameworks can be applied to embedded control systems. A case study of a framework using a set of application dependent design patterns for the orbit control system of satellites is presented.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction and Context....Pages 1-16
Attitude and Orbit Control Systems (AOCS)....Pages 17-28
Software Frameworks....Pages 29-47
Framelets and Implementation Cases....Pages 49-67
Framework Specification....Pages 69-77
Framework Design....Pages 79-98
The User’s Perspective....Pages 99-110
General Structure of the AOCS Framework....Pages 111-129
General Design Principles....Pages 131-140
The System Management Framelet....Pages 141-145
The Object Monitoring Framelet....Pages 147-157
The Operational Mode Management Framelet....Pages 159-165
The Intercomponent Communication Framelet....Pages 167-181
The Sequential Data Processing Framelet....Pages 183-192
The AOCS Unit Framelet....Pages 193-208
The Reconfiguration Management Framelet....Pages 209-216
The Manoeuvre Management Framelet....Pages 217-221
The Failure Detection Management Framelet....Pages 223-231
The Failure Recovery Management Framelet....Pages 233-242
The Telecommand Management Framelet....Pages 243-252
The Telemetry Management Framelet....Pages 253-262
The Controller Management Framelet....Pages 263-269
The Framework Instantiation Process....Pages 271-278

✦ Subjects

Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Software Engineering; Computer Applications; Automotive and Aerospace Engineering, Traffic