CompSpace 2020: The 4th Workshop on Computer Architectures in Space 2020 Aachen, Germany, May 25-26, 2020 |
Conference website | https://compspace.in.tum.de |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compspace2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | March 16, 2020 |
Submission deadline | March 16, 2020 |
The aerospace market has undergone rapid changes within the last 15 years. Due to technological progress in consumer electronics satellite design has evolved from the purely use of customized hardware solutions towards the utilization of commercial off-the-shelf electronics, potentially leading to higher cost efficiency and an increased system performance. The dawn of the CubeSats and upcoming Mega-Constellations of miniaturized satellites are currently fueling the progress, attracting venture capital in a never seen before ratio. Mega-Constellations of satellites for a diverse range of applications have become reality with the successful funding of OneWeb and other small satellite swarms. While using COTS electronics, such missions require an increased level of dependability in all subsystems to enable their use within critical missions and for such with prolonged lifetime requirements. However, miniaturized satellites are plagued by low dependability, and require failure tolerance and reliability-enhancing measures to be implemented. Furthermore, on board computers of such spacecraft need to take into account specific boundary conditions which can differ significantly from those of standard computing systems. These comprise environmental factors like launch loads or radiations robustness but also limitations regarding power consumption, mass or costs.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
- The workshop will discuss existing and novel approaches for computer architectures in space, targeting an audience from computer architects to space engineers working on miniaturized as well as traditional larger scale satellites. Synergies to existing terrestrial applications as well as computing architectures of constellations and swarms of satellites are a focus of the workshop, being firmly embedded in the main conference. The ARCS conference series has over 30 years of tradition reporting leading edge research in computer architecture and operating systems.
List of Topics
- Dependable spacecraft and payload computer architectures
- Mitigation of radiation induced errors
- Space Mission results and lessons learned
- Modified COTS solutions
- Fault detection and fault mitigation
- Fault tolerance techniques and strategies in space environments
- Computer architectures in spaceflight
- Computing on Nano- and Femtosatellites
- Constellations and Swarms
- Real Time and fault tolerance on COTS solutions
- Parallel and Distributed Computing in space
- Cloud Computing and Big Data in space applications
- Validation, Certification, Testing and test results
Committees
Program Committee
- Carsten Trinitis, CAPS, TUM, DE
- Sebastian Rückerl, LRT, TUM, DE
- Nicolas Appel, LRT, DE
- Dai Yang, NVIDIA
- TBC
Organizing committee
- Carsten Trinitis, CAPS, TUM, DE
- Sebastian Rückerl, LRT, TUM, DE
- Nicolas Appel, LRT, D
Invited Speakers
- TBA
Publication
CompSpace 2020 proceedings will be published by VDE Verlag in the IEEE Digital Library.
Venue
The conference will be held in Aachen, Germany.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Carsten.Trinitis@tum.de .