From the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) example, a model of a serviceable scientific mission is developed to study on-orbit repair and upgrading, including spacecraft repair, payload instrument upgrading, and bus subsys...
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From the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) example, a model of a serviceable scientific mission is developed to study on-orbit repair and upgrading, including spacecraft repair, payload instrument upgrading, and bus subsystems upgrading. Mission utility is measured by the onboard payload instrument discovery efficiency. A Monte Carlo simulation is used to model uncertainty in the arrival of new technologies, random spacecraft failures, and catastrophic failures of a servicing operation. The value of the option to repair and upgrade, as well as the impact of different design choices, is investigated using actual data from the HST manned servicing missions. The main differences between manned and unmanned servicing missions are then analyzed in an attempt to derive conclusions for robotic on-orbit servicing of scientific missions. In light of the cases examined, designing for serviceability exclusively for satellite repair does not seem very valuable. In contrast, upgrading can significantly increase mission utility especially if the technology embedded in the serviceable modules is evolving rapidly. Technology upgrades via on-orbit servicing have been identified as a very promising concept. Large increases in mission utility can be realized for a cost significantly lower than the cost of replacing the whole satellite.
WebLabs, or Remotely Operated Laboratories, allow for remote control and monitoring of interactive or batched systems with educational objectives. Considered as additional resources in education, they contribute to a ...
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We describe how aircraft are designed in a large organization. We discuss the different phases of design and interaction with the customer. We then describe the models used by each specialist department and the intera...
This paper presents the first phase of a methodology for making transportation decisions in the Supply Chain (SC), in the first part of this article are the importance of transactional costs in transportation and thei...
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The audio description mechanism allows people with visual disabilities to access video content. Currently, commercial and open source tools exist with features such as creation of descriptions and play videos with aud...
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Consumption is an essential aspect of daily life, and fulfilling customer needs requires efficient distribution of goods. Therefore, distributors are needed and they frequently set targets for their employees to achie...
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The evolution of Science has been supported by complex computerized infrastructures with growing interest in simulation based experiments. This trend can also be observed in Software engineering. Our capacity of acqui...
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and its disruptive technologies are emerging massively. With various motivations for its implementation such as elevation of speed, reducing costs, mitigating errors, and other differe...
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An integral part of the curriculum in the recently developed Master of Science in Telecommunications systemsprogram at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa is a laboratory course. The course is designed to enhance stud...
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An integral part of the curriculum in the recently developed Master of Science in Telecommunications systemsprogram at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa is a laboratory course. The course is designed to enhance student understanding of fundamental computer networking principles and to expose students to research tools that can be used in carrying out their capstone research projects. Through a series of sequential laboratory modules, students learn to setup and configure simple to complex computer networks and to effectively employ commercial software tools for network design and performance analysis. Near the end of the course, working independently, each student is required to complete a final project that assimilates much of the reinforced and/or newly acquired knowledge and skills. This paper provides a detailed description of the laboratory course and its key project modules.
In Software engineering, context can be understood as the overall set of information used to characterize the situation of an entity. A software system is context-aware if it uses the context to provide relevant infor...
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