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Design of a Virtual Machine based on the Lua interpreter for the On-Board Control Procedure Execution Environment  

Kang, Sooyeon (한국항공우주연구원 위성비행소프트웨어팀)
Koo, Cheolhea (한국항공우주연구원 달탐사기술팀)
Ju, Gwanghyeok (한국항공우주연구원 달탐사연구실)
Park, Sihyeong (충남대학교 컴퓨터공학과 임베디드 시스템연구실)
Kim, Hyungshin (충남대학교 컴퓨터공학과 임베디드 시스템연구실)
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Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications / v.9, no.4, 2014 , pp. 127-133 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we present the design, functions and performance analysis of the virtual machine (VM) based on the Lua interpreter for On-Board Control Procedure Execution Environment (OEE). The development of the OEE has been required in order to operate the lunar explorer mission autonomously which is planned by Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) autonomously. The concept of On-Board Control Procedure (OBCP) is already being applied to the deep space missions with a long propagation delay and a limited data transmission capacity since it ensure he autonomy of the mission without the ground intervention. The interpreter is the execution engine in the VM and it interpreters high-level programming codes line by line and executes the VM instructions. So the execution speed is very more slower than that of natively compiled codes. In order to overcome it, we design and implement OEE using register-based Lua interpreter for execution engine in OEE. We present experimental results on a range of additional hardware configurations such as usages of cache and floating point unit. We expect those to utilized to the OBCP scheduling policy and the system with Lua interpreter.
Keywords
On-Board Control Procedure (OBCP); OBCP Execution Environment (OEE); Virtual Machine; Lua interpreter; On-Board Software (OBS);
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