Integrated Solution for Rapid Development of Complex GNC Software

Kurzfassung

The paper describes the integrated software solution retained for the design and development of the AVANTI experiment, a challenging on-board autonomous formation-flying endeavour to be conducted in 2016. This solution aims at enabling rapid prototyping by providing a powerful development, validation and testing environment, able to support simultaneously the design and validation of novel Guidance, Navigation and Control algorithms, the definition and documentation of the interfaces with the ground segment, the implementation of the onboard software using space quality standards, the integration into an existing satellite bus and all related testing activities.