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Digital Availability of Product Information for Collaborative Engineering of Spacecraft

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Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering (CDVE 2019)

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a system to collect product information from manufacturers and make it available in tools that are used for concurrent design of spacecraft. The planning of a spacecraft needs experts from different disciplines, like propulsion, power, and thermal. Since these different disciplines rely on each other there is a high need for communication between them, which is often realized by a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) process and corresponding tools. We show by comparison that the product information provided by manufacturers often does not match the information needed by MBSE tools on a syntactic or semantic level. The information from manufacturers is also currently not available in machine-readable formats. Afterwards, we present a prototype of a system that makes product information from manufacturers directly available in MBSE tools, in a machine-readable way.

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    CubeSats are mini satellites made of 10 cm \(\times \) 10 cm \(\times \) 10 cm units and often use COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) products.

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    That is, running text, as opposed to bullet points, tables, or figures.

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  1. Software Systems for Digitalization, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Mälzerstraße 3, 07745, Jena, Germany

    Diana Peters, Philipp M. Schäfer & Kobkaew Opasjumruskit

  2. Software for Space Systems and Interactive Visualization, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Lilienthalplatz 7, 38108, Brunswick, Germany

    Philipp M. Fischer & Andreas Gerndt

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Peters, D., Fischer, P.M., Schäfer, P.M., Opasjumruskit, K., Gerndt, A. (2019). Digital Availability of Product Information for Collaborative Engineering of Spacecraft. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11792. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30949-7_9

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