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Transmitting Earth observation image data from satellites to ground stations incurs significant costs in terms of power and bandwidth. For maritime ship detection, on-board data processing can identify ships and reduce the amount of data…
Realizing functional space systems using flight-tested components is problematic in developing economies, as such components are costly for most institutions to sponsor. The B.Sc. project, Subsystems for 2nd Iteration Cairo University…
Because of the communication delay between earth and moon, the GNC technology of lunar probe is becoming more important than ever. Current navigation technology is not able to provide precise motion estimation for probe landing control…
Observing, understanding, and mitigating the effects of failure in embedded systems is essential for building dependable control systems. We develop a software-based monitoring methodology to further this goal. This methodology can be…
We describe an assembly of numerical tools to model the output data of the Planck satellite. These start with the generation of a CMB sky in a chosen cosmology, add in various foreground sources, convolve the sky signal with arbitrary, even…
In this article the implementation of a controller and specifically of a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) on an Edge Computing device, for controlling the trajectory of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) model, is examined. MPC requires more…
Cube satellites, or CubeSats, are small satellites commonly used to perform Earth imaging and on-orbit scientific experiments. CubeSats are often powered using expensive, inflexible commercial-off-the-shelf solar panels, largely due to a…
The Network-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm has been proposed as a favorable solution to handle the strict communication requirements between the increasingly large number of cores on a single chip. However, NoC systems are exposed to the aggressive…
This paper presents a system for hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) simulation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control algorithms implemented on a heterogeneous SoC FPGA computing platforms. The AirSim simulator running on a PC and an Arty Z7…
We present an open-source accessory for the NAO robot, which enables to test computationally demanding algorithms in an external platform while preserving robot's autonomy and mobility. The platform has the form of a backpack, which can be…
During the last few years, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with sensors and cameras has emerged as a cutting-edge technology to provide services such as surveillance, infrastructure inspections, and target acquisition.…
The increasing density of transistors in Integrated Circuits (ICs) has enabled the development of highly integrated Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) and, more recently, Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs). To address scalability challenges in…
This paper presents a modulation scheme in the time domain based on On-Off-Keying and proposes various compatible supports for different types of image sensors. The content of this article is a sub-proposal to the IEEE 802.15.7r1 Task Group…
The capabilities of CP2K, a density-functional theory package and OMEN, a nano-device simulator, are combined to study transport phenomena from first-principles in unprecedentedly large nanostructures. Based on the Hamiltonian and overlap…
The increasing autonomy of spacecraft demands fault-detection systems that are both reliable and explainable. This work addresses eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for onboard Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery within the Attitude…
The paper deals with the software and the electronics unit for an autonomous underwater vehicle. The implementation in the electronics unit is the connection and communication between SBC, pixhawk controller and other sensory hardware and…
The nanoPU is a new networking-optimized CPU designed to minimize tail latency for RPCs. By bypassing the cache and memory hierarchy, the nanoPU directly places arriving messages into the CPU register file. The wire-to-wire latency through…
The navigation systems of autonomous aircraft rely on the readings provided by a suite of onboard sensors to estimate the aircraft state. In the case of fixed wing vehicles, the sensor suite is composed by triads of accelerometers,…
ALICE has upgraded many of its detectors for LHC Run 3 to operate in continuous readout mode recording Pb--Pb collisions at 50 kHz interaction rate without trigger. This results in the need to process data in real time at rates 100 times…