Automatic Deployment of an RPAS Mission Manager to an ARINC-653 Compliant System

  • Hèctor Usach
  • Juan A. Vila
  • Alfons Crespo
  • Pedro Yuste
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Abstract

The development process of avionics system requiring a high level of safety is subjected to rigorous development and verification standards. In order to accelerate and facilitate this process, we present a testbed that uses a suite of methods and tools to comply with aerospace standards for certification. To illustrate the proposed methodology, we designed a Mission Management System for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) that was deployed on a particular run-time execution platform called XtratuM, an ARINC-653 compliant system developed in our research group. The paper discusses the system requirements, the software architecture, the key issues for porting designs to XtratuM, and how to automatize this process. Results show that the proposed testbed is a good platform for designing and qualifying avionics applications.

Keywords

Software design methodologies Software architectures Integrated modular avionics Mission managers RPAS 
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Acknowledgments

This research has been financed by the Institute of Control Systems and Industrial Computing (Ai2), and by projects GVA AICO/2015/126 (Ayudas para Grupos de Investigación Consolidables) and GVA ACIF/2016/197 (Ayudas para la contratación de personal investigador en formación de carácter predoctoral) of the Spanish Regional Government “Generalitat Valenciana”.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Hèctor Usach
    • 1
  • Juan A. Vila
    • 1
  • Alfons Crespo
    • 1
  • Pedro Yuste
    • 2
  1. 1.Instituto de Automática e Informática IndustrialUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaValenciaSpain
  2. 2.Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones AvanzadasUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaValenciaSpain

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