National Instruments 7 June Jim Henry -- UTChattanooga. EXPRESS Payload Simulator Flight Demonstration on ISS Demonstrating Boeing-Developed

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1 National Instruments 7 June 2010 EXPRESS Payload Simulator software developed by UTC professor Dr. Jim Henry carried on the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis that launched May 14 for installation on the ISS, May 24 Jim Henry -- UTChattanooga 1 EXPRESS Payload Simulator Flight Demonstration on ISS Demonstrating Boeing-Developed Software Toolkit for Ethernet Lab-Like Architecture (STELLA) - interfacing to - University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) Developed LabVIEW Payload Software Application to Monitor IBM T61p Laptop Amanda Rice Manager Boeing Huntsville Jim Henry -- UTChattanooga 2 1

2 3 Contents ISS Summary UTC LabVIEW Payload Software Summary Flight Demonstration Configuration Experiences with the ISS 2010 Forward Work -- Grander Scale! Points of Contact 4 2

3 ISS National Lab The U.S segment of the ISS is a national laboratory The ISS will further strengthen the pursuit of national priorities for the advancement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics The ISS National Laboratory will also open new paths for the exploration and economic development of Space. 5 ISS National Lab 1. The National Laboratory concept is an opportunity to expand the US economy in spacebased research, applications and operations 2. The ISS represents a unique and highly visible national asset with surplus capacity available for a wide spectrum of applications 3. NASA will continue to cover cost of operating and maintaining the ISS, and is highly motivated to work with other agencies and organizations to 6 pursue applications. 3

4 LabVIEW Remote Summary Provides command, science telemetry and parameter formatting and routing services to payload software Enables operations analogous to Ground Laboratory communications using standard protocols (TCP and UDP plus standard Telnet utility) 7 LabVIEW at UTC (?) Tony Vento sold me on LabVIEW A variety of feedback control laboratory stations and a distillation column using MAC SE s up through MAC Quadras First remote internet-operated experiments with a home-built LV web server. Thanks to Richard Jennings (Los Alamos) via Info-LabVIEW 8 4

5 Rather than direct Computer to Computer ethernet communications, STELLA software services capture ethernet communications and format and route data appropriately Easy to integrate Integrate STELLA Flight Software Services with Payload Flight Software Integrate STELLA Ground Software Services with MSFC Developed Telescience Resource Kit (TReK) Software STELLA Summary Proprietary 9 Remote Panels were not implemented Uplink data rate to ISS is about 200 bits/sec! I haven t monitored the Remote Panel comm requirements STELLA Summary Proprietary 10 5

6 UTC LabVIEW Payload Software UTC is an experienced developer of LabVIEW applications for web-based equipment interaction Under contract to Boeing to develop the T61p Payload Software Developed Using LabVIEW Application Monitors T61p Laptop Parameters (telemetry) Implements File Logging of Telemetry Data Description Keyboard Light (1=On/0=Off) Power Source (1=On/0=Off) Bluetooth (1=Enable/0=Disable) Hotkey (1=Enable/0=Disable) Mute (1=On/0=Off) LCD (1=Enable/0=Disable) CRT (1=Enable/0=Disable) DVI (1=Enable/0=Disable) Auto (1=Enable/0=Disable) Fan Speed (RPM) CPU Temp (C) HD Space (GB) Brightness (#) Volume (#) Sound Level (#) Sound Level Average (#) Payload Telemetry From UDP/TCP Data Streams Size (For Ground Test) H&S Packet Location Discrete 1 Discrete 2 Discrete 3 Discrete 4 Discrete 5 Discrete 6 Discrete 7 Discrete 8 Discrete 9 Integer 1 Integer 2 Integer 3 Integer 4 Integer 5 Integer 6 Integer 7 11 UTC LabVIEW Payload Software Boeing/UTC EXPRESS Payload Simulator Master LabVIEW Program-DATA SERVER Sound to File TCP-Data-Server-w-checksum UDP Data Server write-filelist average sound amplitude On-Orbit EXPRESS Rack 1 T61p Laptop Boeing/UTC EXPRESS Payload Simulator Monitor Ground Station 12 6

7 UTC LabVIEW Payload Software Boeing/UTC EXPRESS Payload Simulator Monitor Ground Station

8 Marshall/Huntsville PRO Payload Rack Officer OC Operation Controller ISS FE-2 EPS EXPRESS Payload Simulator Boeing VSR/Houston 15 STELLA Demonstration 16 8

9 STELLA Demonstration 17 STELLA Integration Dr. Jim Henry from UTC summarized the ease of integrating his LabVIEW Payload Software with STELLA: I use LabVIEW software, with which I am familiar, and do all my customary control, data acquisition, file writing, report preparation, graphing, tabulating... you name it. All this is done via LabVIEW programming running on a ground computer and onboard the ISS to understand and to control my experiment. Using standard, built-in communication protocols (e.g., TCP, UDP) between the computer on the ISS and a ground computer, I am able to operate the programs on the ISS computer in a similar way to what I could do if I were actually operating that computer. All this is to say that Boeing's STELLA interface, which is totally transparent to me, allows me to focus on what I know well and allows me to do this quite distant experimentation with all the tools with which I am already familiar. Jim Henry, Ph,D., P.E. Professor of Engineering University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 18 9

10 Presentation to NASA 19 After Presentation to NASA 20 10

11 UTC LabVIEW Experience from Tony Vento, Vice President, Systems & Applications Engineering, National Instruments It is great to see the progress that you have made, e.g. having LabVIEW on the International Space Station. I believe it was 1988 when we first looked at LabVIEW at UTC - you have truly been one of the graphical programming pioneers. 21 Point of Contact Jim Henry UTC Payload Software Developer jim-henry@utc.edu 22 11

12 Laboratory Collaboration Worldwide Example UTC Collaborations 23 Laboratories Without Borders Doctors W-B, Engineers W-B, Statisticians W-B, Lawyers W-B, MBAs W-B the global nature of web-labs can be a very significant contributor to improving laboratory education in many colleges and universities in the world. we've been supported by NATO's Science for Peace and Security Program. I'd like to get NATO to sponsor a system of "Laboratories for 24 Peace and Security" 12

13 Laboratories Without Borders I want your ideas to help this become reality Jim Henry UTC Laboratory Software Developer jim-henry@utc.edu 25 Point of Contact Jim Henry UTC jim-henry@utc.edu 26 13