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Avionics and Communication Break Out Session: Discussion Starters

This session will discuss near-term objectives for communications and avionics, as well as key technology interests and potential collaboration opportunities. Topics include signal processing, adaptive hardware, error correction coding, antenna technologies, miniaturized antennas, and computational electromagnetics. Come share your research and ideas for collaboration with NASA and universities.

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Avionics and Communication Break Out Session: Discussion Starters

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  1. Avionics and Communication Break Out Session“Discussion Starters” Jason A. Soloff Laura Hood NASA/JSC

  2. Near-Term Objectives forCommunications and Avionics • Finish construction of ISS using Space Shuttle • Develop Orion & Ares I vehicles to provide crew / cargo to ISS

  3. Next Steps in Human Exploration • Develop Constellation lunar vehicles (Orion, LSAM, EVA, surface systems) to enable sustained human lunar exploration • Return to the moon through robotics and human presence

  4. Engineering Key Technology Interests • Communication / Avionics systems • Signal processing / DSP techniques • Adaptive / reconfigurable hardware (software defined radio) • Error correction coding / bandwidth efficient modulation • Environment adaptive / disruption tolerant networking • Reconfigurable / adaptive processing • Antenna / RF Technologies • Miniaturized antenna structures • E-textile technologies • Wireless sensors and RFID antennas • UWB • Smart Antennas (active phased arrays / beam formers) • Advanced GPS Antenna systems • Stabilized photonics for large antenna arrays • Analytical • Computational electromagnetics • Automated design of RF structures (genetic algorithms, particle swarm algorithms)

  5. Signal Processing / DSP • Software Defined Radio • DSP / GPP • Direct sampled / Direct synthesized RF • Waveform interoperability / advanced modulation techniques • Antenna beamforming • Adaptive network protocols & FEC • Reconfigurable Avionics platforms • FPGA / Reconfigurable processing • Modular avionics • Test / Validation testbeds • Rapid prototyping • Reconfigurable waveforms, protocols Good collaboration opportunity

  6. Miniaturized Antennas Miniaturized Antennas for Mini AERCam Drivers: • HF & UHF likely for surface exploration • Traditionally these are large antenna structures • Low mass & volume highly desired for robotics and mobile systems (eg. AERCam) • Printed electronics, organic transistors • Emerging technologies may offer new approaches to miniaturized active antenna structures Manually soldered Tchebyscheff filter 2-layer mini-PIFA w/ modified feed (fab. by PCB vendor) Wireless Ethernet (802.11b/g) 2.40-2.48 GHz RF/Antenna design, MEMS, small-scale manufacturing

  7. Antenna Design/Development E-Textiles / Fabric Antennas RF/Antenna design, materials fabrication & processing

  8. Antenna Design/Development Wireless Video System (WVS) Helmet Antenna Direct application of technologies to mission needs

  9. Computational Electromagnetics • RF propagation and field strengths • EMI, RF exposure, spectrum management • Antenna pattern and performance modeling and analysis • RF / high frequency structure modeling and simulation • uWave & MEMS Physics, EM theory, advanced computer science and computation

  10. Possible Topics for Discussion • What areas of research are happening at your University that could be fruitful for collaboration? • How can NASA and Universities work to engage students and young researchers in technologies with application to space exploration? • What collaborations have worked well before? Why?

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