The European Space Agency Tender

The Objective Of This Activity Is To Develop The Current State Of The Art In Model Based Avionics, Aocs, Gnc, System And Software Engineering, By Improved Integration Of Analytic And Simulation Based Design Tools To Handle Complex Distributed Control Problems. Description: Early Life-cycle System Design And Analysis Is Difficult To Achieve Because Domain Specific Models Are Still Used Traditionally, Which Lack A Common Notation. Collecting, Aggregating And Exchanging Information At System Level Is Complex And Error Prone, Which Hampers The Use In A Multi-disciplinary Concurrent Design Setting. This Limits The Ability To Analyze System-level Requirements Such As Performance And Dependability In Phase A/b1, Causing Postponement Of Design Decisions To Later Phases, Which Lowers The Opportunities To Study Alternative Solutions And Validation Of Fitness For Purpose. The Main Challenges Of The Activity Are The Following: To Adopt Multi-physics Modelling Techniques To Alleviate The Problem Of Lacking Common Notation And Integrate Those Into Existing Design Tools And Analysis Techniques. To Deal With The Need For Heterogeneous Levels Of Model Fidelity, To Integrate Discipline Specific Viewpoints To Capture System Behaviour Efficiently At The Required Level Of Detail At The Right Time. To Perform Meaningful And Timely Analysis Even Before Any Physical System Is Available, Bridging The Gap Between The Engineering Disciplines. To Model Faults Explicitly, To Enable Investigation Of (cross-domain) Error Propagation And Their Potential Mitigation Strategies (i.e. Fdir), Already In Phase A/b1. To Support Multi-disciplinary Design Trade-off Studies. To Provide The Basis For Digital Continuity (reuse Of Models In Later Phases).the Proposed Activity Shall Make Use Of Multi-physics Modelling Tools To Provide The Means To Create System Dynamics Models That Can Be Integratedwith The Aforementioned Tools To Support Multi-disciplinary Design Dialogue, In Particular Related To The Avionics Design.the Activity Shall Focus On The Definition (requirements By Users) And Implementation Of The Integrated Tool Infrastructure, With Application On Existing Use Cases To Demonstrate The Rapid Prototyping Capability