ITOS, Integrated Test

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ITOS, Integrated Test Operations System
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Introduction
What is ITOS? A low-cost, highly
configurable control and monitoring system
What are its current applications?
Satellite development, test, operations
Science instrument development, test,
operations Ground station equipment
monitoring control
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Introduction
What are its other possible applications?
Nasdaq day trading - Ingest raw Nasdaq Level
II data and initiate trades - Provide base for
custom analysis software Industrial
Control - Monitor fleets (ships, trucks,
etc.) - Control monitor large-scale HVAC
- Control monitor manufacturing
processes Any applications that involve
real-time monitoring, control, and data
distribution
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Introduction
Who is using ITOS? SAMPEX, TRACE, FAST,
SWAS, WIRE, Triana Spartan 201, Spartan
251, Spartan 401, Spartan 402 HESSI,
Swift, ULDB PiVot GPS, CIRS, Mars
Pathfinder
Who is commercializing ITOS? Universal
Space Network the Hammers Company
Omitron AlliedSignal Technical Services
Corporation
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Low-Cost Our Specialty

• No software licensing cost
• Portable - fully functional on all supported
  platforms
• PC (FreeBSD, Linux, or Solaris)
• Workstation
• Laptop
• Distributed - can utilize several inexpensive
  computers for higher performance
• Provides infrastructure required for lights-out
  operations.
• Easily interfaces to add-on products such as
  Altair, Apprentice, Genie, and LabView.
• Database driven - ITOS software need not be
  customized from mission to mission
• No custom front-end required

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Adaptability

• Migrates from development labs to operations
• Board/box level
• Subsystem level
• Integration and test
• Mission operations
• Easy interfaces have made ITOS an ideal test bed
  for integration of new technology
• LabView, Matlab, PV-Wave, VirtualSat, Apprentice,
  SOTG
• SERS, Genie/GenSAA, SMEX DPS, DTAS
• Supports science instrument development and
  operations
• Provides data to existing instrument support
  equipment
• Serves as a base for developing new instrument
  support equipment
• Handles many data formats including CCSDS and TDM
• Laptop configuration will be used by shuttle
  astronauts to check-out Spartan free-flyers prior
  to deployment

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Innovations

• Extreme low cost
• Makes extensive use of freely available software,
  operating systems, and technical support
• Scalable - supports everything from board-level
  testing to operations
• WWW interface for remote monitoring
• Traditional spacecraft front-end processing
  performed in software

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Innovations

• Makes use of Java programming language for
  portability, WWW remote monitoring and telemetry
  displays
• Provides simple interfaces for integrating new
  technology or custom software.
• ITOS supports autonomy by providing in its
  scripting language
• Socket, file, and device I/O (including control
  of IEEE-488 devices)
• Access to the operating system
• Compatible with wide variety of ground stations
  and networks
• DSN, USN, TOTS, LEO-T, TSI, STDN, TDRSS, AFSCN,
  Inmarsat

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Configuration for Satellite Application
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Features and Capabilities

• Ingests CCSDS telemetry transfer frame data and
  reassembles telemetry source packets
• Database driven decommutation of telemetric data
• Real-time data conversion and limit checking of
  telemetric data
• Distributes telemetry data to users via TCP/IP
  network
• Provides real-time off-line data analysis tools
• Packet dumps, sequential prints, XY plotting,
  strip charts, playback
• Archives processed data for long-term storage
• STOL language
• S/C and ground system control
• Procedure control with logic and arithmetic
  capability
• TCP/IP, serial, and IEEE-488 external
  communication
• Time-tagged event messages with audible alarm for
  critical events
• Image load generator/editor
• Remote display of real-time data and events via
  web browser using Java (can monitor S/C from
  home or office)

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Features and Capabilities

• Monitors states and initiates actions
• Database driven spacecraft command formatting
• CCSDS COP-1 S/C command and verification
  capability
• Image load, dump, and compare
• Real-time display of telemetry data with snapshot
  capability
• Remote control of IEEE-488 and RS-232
  instrumentation
• C language and network-based interface to
  operational database
• WWW access to real-time telemetry
• Software based on X windows, Motif, and Java
• Efficient and portable
• Runs on Unix PC or workstation
• Integrated commercial plotting package

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ITOS Capabilities
Strip-charts, XY Plots
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ITOS Capabilities
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Conclusion

• Low-cost
• Widely applicable
• Continuing to evolve
• Partnering with commercial companies

Small team of six supports 16 missions
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Acronym List

• AFSCN Air Force Satellite Control Network
• CCSDS Consultative Committee for Space Data
  Systems
• CIRS Composite Infrared Spectrometer
• COP-1 Command Operations Protocol - 1 (CCSDS)
• DPS Data Processing System (Level Zero
  Processor)
• DSN Deep Space Network
• DTAS Data Trending and Analysis System
• FAST Fast Auroral Snapshot
• HESSI High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager
• HVAC Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning
• IEEE Institute for Electrical and Electronics
  Engineers
• LEO-T Low earth orbit - Terminal
• PC Personal Computer
• PiVot GPS Global Positioning System
• S/C Spacecraft
• SAMPEX Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric
  Particle Explorer
• SERS Satellite Emergency Response System
• SMEX Small Explorer

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Acronym List

• STOL System Test and Operations Language
• SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
• TDM Time Division Multiplexed
• TDRSS Tracking Data and Relay Satellite System
• TOTS Transportable Operations and Tracking System
• TRACE Transition Region and Coronal Explorer
• TSI TSI Telsys Inc.
• ULDB Ultra-long Duration Balloon
• USN Universal Space Network
• WIRE Wide-field Infrared Explorer
• WWW World wide web