Software Frameworks and Embedded Control Systems

“Although framework technology has proven its worth as a software reuse technique in many domains, there have been reservations regarding its application in embedded systems, mostly due to limited CPU and memory resources. Recent hardware advances, however, have changed this picture.
This book shows how object-oriented software frameworks can be applied to embedded control systems. A case study of a framework using a set of application dependent design patterns for the orbit control system of satellites is presented.”

1 Introduction and Context
1.1 The Embedded Software Problem
1.2 Empowering Application Specialists
1.3 The Component Software Challenge
1.4 Objectives and Contributions
2 Attitude and Orbit Control Systems(AOCS)
2.1 AOCS Systems
2.2 The AOCS and Other Control Systems
3 Software Frameworks
3.1 Frameworks，Components，and Inheritance
3.2 A More Complete View of Software Frameworks
3.3 Frameworks and Autocoding Tools
3.4 The Methodological Problem
4 Framelets and Implementation Cases
4.1 The Framelet Concept
4.2 The Implementation Case Concept
5 Framework Specification
6 Framework Design
7 The User’s Perspective
8 General Structure of the AOCS Framework
9 General Design Principles
10 The System Management Framelet
11 The Object Monitoring Framelet
12 The Operational Mode Management Framelet
13 The Intercomponent Communication Framelet
14 The Sequential Data Processing Framelet
15 The AOCS Unit Framelet
16 The Reconfiguration Management Framelet
17 The Manoeuvre Management Framelet
18 The Failure Detection Management Framelet
19 The Failure Recovery Management Framelet
20 The Telecommand Management Framelet
21 The Telemetry Management Framelet
22 The Controller Management Framelet
23 The Framework Instantiation Process
Appendix
References
Index