Got software? what managers and engineers need to know

As part of a JPL-wide software quality initiative aimed at addressing the challenges of developing, managing, and acquiring software, a team at JPL generated a detailed Software Training Plan for both managers and engineers. The team took the approach of treating the software training program as though it were a system development task and went through all the typical phases of system development including requirements, design, and implementation. During the requirements collection phase, the team conducted dozens of interviews and identified the specific skills needed. The skills fell into categories such as software management, software engineering, systems engineering, and other technical areas. However, an equally important finding was that several "soft" skills were deemed critical for the successful and timely management and implementation of software-intensive systems. This discusses JPL's approach and "lessons learned" from planning and delivering a software training program in an engineering and scientific environment.     

Guiding technology development and transition into productsresponsive to end-user needs

It is argued that a systems engineering process that develops an understanding of end-user needs and economically develops a product system which includes the right technology advances to satisfy these needs is the best way to ensure success in the market of end-user needs. This customer pulled approach to new and improved products also pulls the necessary technology developments with it and integrates their timing and resource requirements into those of the end product planning. With appropriate concurrent, cross-functional teams working both the planning and the execution, this approach benefits from the wisdom and leadership of the end-user focused team to deliver the desired program results on schedule. This frees top leadership to focus on longer range visions for the product line and technologies     

基于MBSE的副翼及其操纵系统研发技术及应用

飞机的设计研发是一项涉及多学科领域、多目标、多约束的复杂系统工程过程,系统耦合紧密、参与人员众多、设计信息庞杂,以文档为中心的需求管理等传统研发方法突显出一定的困难,亟需探索新的飞机设计研发方法。以副翼及其操纵系统为研究对象,对基于模型的系统工程(Model Based System Engineering,以下简称MBSE)方法进行了探索研究:采用达索MBSE方法论-MMS(Modeling Methodology for Systems,以下简称MMS),从使命、服务、功能和组件不同视角对副翼及其操纵系统研发的各个方面进行解析,进而完整定义系统;利用达索3D Experience平台,通过RFLP系统工程架构,进行了副翼及其操纵系统的需求开发、功能分析及逻辑架构设计,完成了需求、功能、逻辑架构、系统仿真、物理设计等模型的关联追溯,实现了以达索MBSE方法论为核心的研发技术的有效应用。     

Channelization: the two-fault tolerant attitude control functionfor the Space Station Freedom

The Space Station Freedom was, from the mid-1980's through 1993, the design for an international orbiting laboratory facility. The Space Station Freedom was comprised of “utility” systems, such as power generation and distribution, thermal management, and data processing, and “user” systems such as communication and tracking, propulsion, payload support, and guidance, navigation, and control. These systems are required to work together to provide various station functions. To protect the lives onboard and the investment in the station, the systems and their connectivity had to be designed to continue to support critical functions after any single fault for early assembly stages, and after any two faults for later stages. Of these critical functions, attitude control was the most global, incorporating equipment from nearly all major systems. The challenge was to develop an architecture, or integration, of these systems that would achieve the specified level of fault tolerant attitude control and operate, autonomously, for the three-month unmanned periods during the assembly process. Additionally, this architecture had to maintain the desired utility of the station for each stage of the assembly process. This paper discusses the approach developed for integrating the systems such that the fault tolerance requirements were met for all stages of assembly. Some of the key integration issues are examined and the role of analysis tools are described. The resultant design was a highly channelized one, and the reasons and the benefits of this design will be explored. The final design was accepted by the Space Station Control Board as the design baseline in July 1992     

Information systems requirements analysis and design: a balancedapproach

Over the last decade information engineering has become the methodology of choice for developing information systems. There are as many definitions of information engineering as there are practitioners of the techniques. This paper addresses information engineering from a practical perspective; it discusses how information engineering techniques can be applied to the real-life problem of identifying system requirements and satisfying those requirements with a computer-based information system. The paper also shows that information engineering, rather than being a new methodology, is made up of components of existing methodologies     

基于并行工程的航空嵌入式软件测试过程研究

航空嵌入式软件市场不断动荡与激烈竞争的局面对航空嵌入式软件测试提出了新的挑战,商业化的第三方软件测试面临着质量、进度、成本等问题,而良好的软件过程与持续的过程改进是解决这些问题的一个途径。从对并行工程的研究入手,将并行工程的方法运用到航空嵌入式软件测试实践中,寻求基于并行工程的航空嵌入式软件测试过程,用于解决以上问题。     

基于MBSE的飞机大部件智能装配能力建设方法

飞机大部件智能装配能力建设涉及领域多、范围广,多学科、多专业交叉融合特点显著,是一项复杂的系统工程。近年来,飞机智能装配能力建设已实现相当程度的单点技术突破与应用,但并未达到全局最优,亟需采用科学的方法对智能装配体系能力建设进行整体规划与全局优化。提出采用基于模型的系统工程(Model-Based Systems Engineering,MBSE),科学开展飞机大部件智能装配体系能力建设的方法研究,逐级明确、细化智能装配能力建设需求与技术方案,构建相对应的数字模型并采用仿真技术进行不断验证、迭代优化,最终实现智能装配能力效能的最大化。     

Lessons learned using software-assisted systems engineering on large satellite development contracts

Over the years, the world's defense industries have become quite proficient at developing large, complex hardware and software systems. In recent years, the ubiquitous deployment of personal computers has changed the way we work. Additionally, took designed to facilitate systems engineering have recently matured enough to start having a major impact on many major systems development efforts. Finally, the government's faster-better-cheaper acquisition philosophy has started driving prime contractors to a concurrent engineering approach toward systems engineering. This confluence of experts is has had unexpected impacts on both the flexibility and rigor of requirements management processes. While the maturing requirements and design took hold great promise in maintaining requirements traceability throughout the design process, the widespread use of desktop computing systems has inadvertently lulled many experienced systems engineers into sloppy processes because it now appears to be a simple matter to make a requirements change in a softcopy of a requirements document. Without strong process and management support, requirements changes inevitably start being derived in a broad spectrum of incompatible took and formats. This author is currently participating in the design phase of a major classified government satellite development effort. As an integral member of an extremely experienced requirements management team (boasting over 150 years of combined experience in the defense industry), this author has had the opportunity to watch the team navigate straight into many of the systems engineering potholes created when talented engineers implement concurrent engineering using a variety of tools without a consistent process framework. This paper, therefore, specifically addresses process and implementation challenges that arose when establishing a software-assisted concurrent-engineering approach on a large satellite development contract.     

多学科优化技术在空间结构锁可靠性设计分析中的应用

 多领域协同建模仿真是复杂产品虚拟样机设计分析需要解决的关键技术问题之一。利用CAD/CAE工具搭建的空间结构锁多柔体虚拟样机模型,综合考虑了强度、动力学、空间环境影响等因素,在协同设计分析和协同建模仿真的基础上,开展了基于可靠性的多学科协同设计分析。并深入讨论了协同建模仿真实现中的数据综合、过程综合等关键技术。通过多学科协同设计分析和建模仿真,找到了空间结构锁的可靠性薄弱环节,并结合多学科优化技术,实现了空间对接锁基于可靠性的设计优化,进一步提出了通用的复杂机电系统基于可靠性的多学科设计优化方案,并开发了能协同三维建模工具（如PROE）,有限元分析工具（如MSCPATRAN,NASTRAN,ANSYS）和动力学分析工具（如MSCADAMS）进行复杂机电系统可靠性分析的通用工具平台ARAMS。     

基于粗糙集的战斗机型号工程综合评价决策模型

根据现代战斗机型号工程质量标准,考虑系统设计要求和用户需求,建立了新的战斗机型号工程评价指标体系。应用粗糙集理论对典型的第三代以上战斗机机型的各种指标数据进行挖掘,利用信息熵概念求得各指标的属性重要度,并将其权值化处理为各指标的权系数,克服了传统权系数确定方法的主观性。最后,建立战斗机型号工程综合评价决策模型并通过实例说明其可行性和有效性。     

What is systems engineering?

There are probably more definitions of “Systems Engineering” than there are AESS members. In its simplest form systems engineering is the design of the whole as opposed to the design of the parts. The vast number, complexity and diversity of elements can overwhelm and degrade system performance and reliability. Embedded processing and software can be both a boon and a bane. A systems engineer analyzes and optimizes an ensemble of elements that relate to the flow of energy, mass and communications into a design that performs the desired function. “Systems engineering” is used herein to cover a very broad spectrum of processes and controls to engineer a product at the many levels required to satisfy all aspects of the original requirement. Our definition is not intended to either include or exclude systems engineering and integration as used in the computer field. In any case, systems engineering is the application of solid engineering principles to design and develop a large enterprise within cost and schedule to satisfy the needs of the ultimate user. It involves conceptualization, design, development, test, implementation, approval/certification and operation (including human factors) of a system. In essence, systems engineering is a problem-solving discipline for the modern world     

面向模块化配置生产的大型飞机装配规划与仿真技术

大型飞机装配具有学科领域多、精度要求高、协调产业链广、工作量大等特点,是大型飞机研制周期、质量和成本的决定性环节。目前国内航空企业更多在单点上引入数字化产品定义MBD以及装配仿真等技术,业务仍然采用传统设计制造分离模式,未形成先进的数字化装配工程应用体系。本文对国内外航空企业的数字化装配技术应用现状进行了分析,提出了先进业务管理、数字化制造工程设计、装配仿真验证相融合的集成框架,并对其中的关键技术进行了论述。最后,基于该研究成果构建了装配规划及仿真的工程应用集成环境,并对应用于某大型飞机研制中的工程化效果进行了描述。     

变循环涡扇冲压组合发动机发展现状及关键技术分析

总结了国内外变循环涡扇冲压组合发动机的发展现状,对比分析了有/无能量传递构型的变循环涡扇冲压组合发动机的工作原理及优缺点。提炼了变循环涡扇冲压组合发动机的关键技术,包括总体性能仿真技术、高速宽工况风扇设计技术、加力/冲压燃烧室设计技术、热管理系统设计技术以及模态转换设计技术。基于国内需求和相关技术研究现状,给出了变循环涡扇冲压组合发动机后续重点研究方向的建议,包括发动机总体性能设计与仿真工具、发动机多设计点多学科耦合设计方法、发动机热管理系统设计与仿真建模以及关键部件的设计与试验。     

Characteristics of a successful space system engineer

The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite was launched on June 24, 1999, on a three-year mission to explore the universe using the technique of high-resolution spectroscopy in the far-ultraviolet spectral region. The FUSE instrument comprises many subsystems, each of which contributes in an essential way to the success of the mission. The instrument system engineer oversees the engineering of all elements in such a complex technical project. In performing system engineering for the FUSE instrument's command, telemetry, data processing and data storage functions, and in leading the engineering efforts for the development of the FUSE instrument on-board computer, the author has learned valuable lessons about the characteristics that are prerequisite to success for a space system engineer. These characteristics fall under various categories of acquired, practical know-how. These categories are described with illustrations drawn from the development of the FUSE instrument. In addition to these practical skills and the concomitant knowledge, the system engineer needs personal integrity, which is the link that connects knowledge with know-how and makes them work together to motivate a team of subsystem engineers. This, too, will be discussed     

基于蒙皮内形定位的飞机壁板柔性装配系统

针对飞机壁板数字化、柔性化制造需求,提出一种基于蒙皮内形定位的飞机壁板柔性装配方法,通过有限元参数化建模,应用蒙皮支撑点寻优算法,实现卡板布局优化设计.根据壁板组件各零件的定位要求,详细设计了壁板柔性装配系统中长桁、蒙皮、角片的柔性定位方式,开发了基于EtherCAT总线的分布式网络控制系统用于完成整个壁板的装配.本系...     

软件工程系统论研究初探

基于一般系统论和工程系统论以及软件工程的特点提出了建立软件工程系统论的设想,并就软件工程系统论的研究意义、学科性质与体系、研究内容、研究方法等问题进行了初步探讨.工程系统论以各种各样的工程系统为其研究目标,其方法论体系适用于软件工程.创立软件工程系统论的科学体系及理论框架有助于切实贯彻系统科学和工程系统的基本思想,提升软件工程的研究起点,促进软件工程应用基础研究的系统化、严谨化和科学化.按照工程系统论提出的分类研究方法,可将软件工程系统初步分解为软件工程对象系统、软件工程过程系统、软件工程技术系统、软件工程支持系统、软件工程组织系统、软件工程管理系统等6大子系统.     

V-22 mechanical diagnostic design approach

The requirements and diagnostic applications for the V-22 tiltrotor aircraft are used to demonstrate the unique requirements of mechanical system diagnostic design. The rationale for the approach selected is explored, and it is shown how the mechanical system diagnostic requirements affect the avionics architecture and performance requirements. It is concluded that, in light of the underdeveloped nature of mechanical diagnostics technology and the extended time required for a given mechanical diagnostic design to mature, future avionics system designs need architecture that is adaptable enough to accommodate the evolving mechanical diagnostics     

Optimal air-launching rocket design using system trades and a multi-disciplinary optimization approach

Compared with the conventional ground rocket launching, air-launching has many advantages. However, a comprehensive and integrated system design approach is required because the physical geometry of air launch vehicle is quite dependent on the installation limitation of the mother plane. For the selection of the best system alternative, a trade study for the first stage engine type and launching speeds is performed using a sequential optimization technique, confirming the feasibility of the baseline air-launching rocket. Then, a system design has been performed using the multi-disciplinary feasible (MDF) design optimization method. Analysis modules include mission analysis, staging, propulsion analysis, configuration, weight analysis, aerodynamics analysis and trajectory analysis. As a result of multi-disciplinary system optimization, a supersonic air launching rocket with total mass of 1244.9 kg, total length of 6.36 m, outer diameter of 0.60 m has been successfully designed to launch a satellite of 7.5 kg to the 700 km circular orbit.     

基于系统工程的飞机系统架构设计过程

随着电子化和集成化程度越来越高,现代飞机系统架构设计中出现越来越多的综合性问题,业界提出了体系性的飞机系统架构设计要求,包括系统工程过程要求、适航条款对架构设计的约束要求、高安全性设计要求等,但缺乏规范的、可落实的飞机系统架构设计过程.针对这个问题,提出了"基于系统工程的飞机系统架构设计过程",并引入了多视角策略(功能...