Software Design and Development of Chang’E-1 Fault Diagnosis System

During a mission, detecting failure accurately and implementing countermeasures in time may decide the success of a space mission. Chang'E-1 mission is the first lunar exploration mission of China. The satellite has several different telemetry formats and bit rates. Moreover, the accuracy requi...

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Published in:Journal of software 2012-12, Vol.7 (12), p.2687-2687
Main Authors: Zheng, AiWu, Gao, YuHui, Ma, YongPing, Zhou, JianPing
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chinese spacecraft
Computer programs
Failure
Fault diagnosis
Missions
Real time
Software
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Summary:During a mission, detecting failure accurately and implementing countermeasures in time may decide the success of a space mission. Chang'E-1 mission is the first lunar exploration mission of China. The satellite has several different telemetry formats and bit rates. Moreover, the accuracy requirement of orbit control is high and demands real-time handling during contingency or abort operations. In addition, the time duration of the mission is very long, lasting more than a year. All these cause some difficulties in fault detection, judgment and handling in the mission. Therefore, in order to detect faults accurately and duly, determine the failure modes in time, implement countermeasures effectively, and provide warning and trend analysis, software of fault diagnosis system is specifically developed for Chang'E-1 mission. The system adopts plug-in software structure and advanced Berkeley DB real-time database. In addition, ice middleware is exploited for message passing between processes. It is also the first time that the failure criterion of the mission is described by extensible markup language (XML), and this well solves the problem of separating failure criterion from program coding. The fault diagnosis system can not only well and truly judge failures with clear criterion, but can also provides trend warnings for failures without clear descriptions, and is very helpful for the personnel who are in charge of fault detection. The advanced technologies applied in the system make it expansible. It can also be used in other space missions. Index Terms-Chang'E-1 mission, fault diagnosis, plug-in, real-time database, middleware
ISSN:1796-217X
1796-217X
DOI:10.4304/jsw.7.12.2687-2694