Development of dynamically reconfigurable ground station software

[摘要] Applications are normally developed with a specific purpose in mind and whennew features are needed the source code has to be modified, recompiled andredistributed. It will be more beneficial if new features can be dynamicallyadded during runtime without the need to disrupt execution, especially in thecase of ground station software.This thesis is about the implementation of a dynamic development environmentwithin which a modular system can be created from existing componentsthat can be extended with additional components at any time. The interactionbetween these components can then be specified which can result in acompletely automated system.It is concluded that the graphical tools of such an environment can make iteasy for people who do not necessarily have programming knowledge to builda system from existing components that can be extended and reconfiguredwhenever necessary.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University