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Robert Vick
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Advisor: Dr. Hank Pernicka
Abstract
The current work being done in the area of reusable flight software by both NASA and the Air Force stress modular design around a core framework which implements reusability. However, there will always be advancements in technology which either require or allow for more advanced flight software to support them. Toward this end, the idea of Rapid Application Design can be applied to a modular flight software system to rapidly develop new modules for existing flight software systems while still maintaining the quantity and quality of normal software engineering processes.
Robert Vick is a graduate student in Computer Science at Missouri S&T from Kansas City, MO. He has been a member of the Missouri S&T Satellite team since December 2005 and served as the lead at various times for the Command & Data Handling, Communications, and Power subsystems. During the summer of 2008, he worked at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate in Albuquerque, NM on the "plug and play" research and development initiative. Beginning in December 2009, he was hired as a Software Engineer for SAIC working in the area of Responsive Space Spacecraft Technologies development. He is anticipating completing his Masters in Computer Science in August 2009.
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