Model-Based Systems Engineering on Telescope Modeling

Speaker

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Robert Karban and Chris Delp

Location

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The Aerospace Corporation
2350 E. El Segundo Blvd.
El Segundo, CA 90245
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Abstract

As an added attraction, Messrs. Karban and Delp will open the program with a presentation and live demonstration of the model. The SE2 Challenge team created comprehensive Systems Modeling Language (SysML) models and established modeling guidelines and conventions for all aspects, hierarchy levels, and views of the system by reverseengineering existing documentation of the Active Phasing Experiment (APE). In the course of SE2's work, several challenges to SysML were identified and analyzed, and the proposed solutions will be presented at the speaker meeting. For the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), SysML was chosen to model the Telescope Control System (TCS), which controls many different optomechanical parts and devices partially embedded in the telescope structure. The experiences gained by applying the established guidelines to a new project will be discussed..

Biography

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Robert Karban is Software Engineer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), developing highly distributed real-time control systems for telescopes since 1996. His current main interest is the modeling and development of interdisciplinary systems. Robert Karban received his Master of Science in Computer Science in 1990 from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. Afterwards he worked in the medical engineering industry and developed embedded control software for accelerator control systems for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Chris Delp is a Software Test Engineer for the Tracking, Telemetry, and Command End-to-End Data Services and is a member of the Multi-mission Integration, Test and Deployment group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Chris’s tasks include developing Modeling and Simulation-based software verification and validation methods and performing software verification and validation for the Advanced Multi-Mission Operations System. He also leads the INCOSE Space Systems Working Group’s entry in the Model-based Systems Engineering Grand Challenge. Additionally, he has performed research on software verification and tools for Service-oriented Architecture in support of the Deep-space Information Services Architecture. Prior to coming to JPL, he worked as a software engineer performing FAA flight-qualified software development and testing on the Joint Tactical Radio System and the Full Authority Digital Engine Controller. Chris earned a Master of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona, where he studied Model-based Systems Engineering, Simulation, and Software Engineering. Prior to his graduate studies, Chris performed his duties as a systems engineer on aMissile Systems Verification and Validation.