17614 Engineering Software Intensive Systems

Course Introduction

ESIS(17-614) stands for Engineering of Software Intensive Systems

This course examines the systems engineering process with special emphasis on software engineering as a discipline within systems engineering. The course includes an overview of system theory and structures elements of the cycle (including system design and development), risk and trade-off analysis, modeling and simulation, and the tools needed to analyze and support the systems process. The course lectures are taught by Sam Harbaugh.

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Project Description

A necessary requirement of ESIS course is for students to perform one team project related to a software intensive system. This homepage's intent is to introduce overview and artifacts of the team project, MDARS.

Project Name

MCNAV001 = Moon CircumNavigating Autonomous Vehicle

Project Need

Produce the system requirements and system engineering plans for a system capable which will circumnavigate the moon along the Magellan moon route. The first team to successfully complete the mission will receieve a $100M prize.

System Overview

In order to accelerate technology development for a Moon Based Autonomous Robot System (MBARS), DARPA has initiated the Lunar Grand Challenge 2005. Carnegie Mellon Universitys MCNAV Team (ESIS 2005 - 17614) has taken up the challenge to design a robotics lunar system in accordance with the challenge requirements provided by DARPA. The lunar environment is extreme. With no atmosphere, the vehicle electronics will be exposed to solar particle events that could literally fry them. Intense ultraviolet radiation will degrade materials. Temperatures on the lunar surface range from minus 170 to plus 110 degrees centigrade depending on whether exposed or shaded from solar radiation. The challenge is to complete the race route, a total distance of approximately 2826 kilometers (referred to System Assumption) in the least amount of time. The course must be completed in no more than 7 days. The MCNAV must be capable of surviving these conditions and be able to adjust to unforeseen hazards on the lunar surface.

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