Structured System and Software Design of Distributed Control Computer of Mechatronic Facility for Space Research
Abstract
The structured system and software designmethod of the distributed control computer network of the
mechatronic scientific facility for automatic high
temperature material processing in the space in microgravitation
environment is presented in the paper. The
facility distributed computer controls special extra low
speed vibrationless electric drives, multi-zone high
temperature furnace heating system and several
measurement devices. The computer is equipped with
special technological language to be possible to specify
experiment time flow. Computer network nodes have many
user processes (threads) so efficient, reliable, self
documented, and low overhead scheduler dispatcher is
required. The table driven coroutines have been designed.
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