Requirements for a Component-Based Modelling Language for Space Missions

Abstract

The AURORA (AUtomatic code generation for inteROpeRAble compo- nents) project explores solutions for creating an auto-code tool. Under the scope of this project is this document, which performs an analysis of the main component-based software architectures to generate a list of requirements that describe their functionali- ties, abstracting from the specific platform. Examples of this type of software would be core Flight System (cFS) or AUTOSAR. cFS and AUTOSAR act as frameworks in which the components are allocated and provide functionalities through a set of appli- cation programming interfaces. By analyzing this software, a set of operating patterns will be obtained. These patterns will describe the interactions between the applications and cFS, paying special attention to the communications between them and the man- agement of their life cycle. A list of requirements will be drawn up that describes, ab- stracting from the platform, these templates with the goal of integrating these function- alities in a component modelling language such as TASTE (The ASSERT Set of Tools for Engineering).