Robert Vick
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Advisor: Dr. Hank Pernicka
Abstract
The design of the flight software for controlling a spacecraft has become an integral part of spacecraft design. With the increasing pressure on reducing the time and cost associated with spacecraft design and fabrication, the ability to reduce the time associated with the control software development while maintaining the necessary quality and complexity. A modular software design takes advantage of modern programming techniques to increase reusability and improve testability by applying object-oriented design and analysis
Robert Vick is a senior in Computer Science at Missouri S&T from Kansas City, Missouri. Starting in the fall of 1999, he began his college career as a Computer Science major at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri. In the fall of 2007, he was selected to become the first ever non-mechanical or aerospace engineering student to receive the Missouri S&T Academy of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineers Student Excellence Award. His current extracurricular activities have become centralized around his research as part of the conceptual design team for the Missouri S&T Satellite Team. This group’s goal is to develop an autonomous formation of small satellites. He initiated his immersion into this particular group during the fall of 2005 and has continued as an active part of the design team ever since. Upon completion of his Bachelor’s degree, he intends to enroll and complete a Master’s in Computer Science at Missouri S&T and then go on to work on professional spacecraft development.
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