Project
From a decentralised and flexible management
to a multi-targeted activity control.
To support the first phase of the project where multiple solutions were envisaged, a decentralised and flexible management approach has been implemented. This has stimulated the emergence of various solutions and has shown the compatibilities and gaps between each of them. The coordination team, with the help of the Technical Steering Committee, has stimulated the exchanges between partners.
The second phase, after the closure of the exploration step, has required an activity control focused on the different elements of the solution to be implemented. Experts in the various domains selected by the project (Modelling, verification, middleware, process) have been appointed to follow the different tasks and ensure the availability of protoypes proving the maturity of the technologies and the level of proper integration.
Overall view on project organisation :
The figure above depicts the overall project organisation setup for managing ASSERT. It clearly shows that the clusters and Pilot Projects carrying out the technical work are under direct control of the Technical Steering Committee which perform the technical management of the project. This committee is supported by the technical experts group who ensure the cooperation between technical clusters. The upper level management bodies such as the Project Management Board and the Project Assembly are there to take major decision in case of strong changes in the project direction.
Teams
To ease the work of the different partners towards the final objective, and in order to simplify the coordination tasks, the project has been organised in eight (8) groups :
- five (5) clusters
- three (3) pilot projects
The clusters perform or structure the development of the techologies, the pilot projects perform the experiments. Among the five clusters :
- two (2) are horizontal clusters, integrating or disseminating the technologies
- the three (3) others are producing technological building blocks
The three pilot projects are covering the various application type that ASSERT is targeting in the space domain. There are representing the system families :
Highly available systems such as launch vehicles
Highly reliable systems such as satellites
Multi-platform systems such as constellations of spacecrafts
Clusters and Pilot Projects.
Five Cluster Teams
1) The technology developers or vertical clusters.
- The DDHRT (Dependability, Distribution, Hard Real-Time) cluster, under the lead of University of Padua (with the following partners in the team : ENST, UPM, UPD, SciSys, INTECS, TNI-SW, TNI-Europe, ). This cluster is mainly in charge of developing the technologies that guarantees the preservation of system properties.
- The DVT (Development and Verification Tools) cluster, under the lead of CS and VERIMAG (with the following partners in the team : ENST, TNI-SW, INTECS, UPD, BSSE, ETH, TERMA, ESTEREL, PROVER, ESA, SEMANTIX, TNI-Europe) is in charge of developping the modelling and verification techniques to support the ASSERT process.
- The SeMV (System Modelling and Verification) cluster under the lead of ESA (with the following partners in the team:ASTRIUM, TAS, ENST, UPD, CS, VERIMAG, ONERA) is developing the system modelling technologies to model and verify high level system properties.
2) The support units or horizontal clusters.
- The P&S (Process and Standardisation) cluster under the lead of ASTRIUM Space Transportation (with the following partners in the team : CS, ASTRIUM, ESI, SoftWcare, ESA) is in charge of capturing the ASSERT process and identifying the potential impacts to the existing standards.
- The O&E (Openess and Exploitation) cluster under the lead of ESA (with the following partners in the team : ASTRIUM, BSSE, CS, UPM, ENST, ESI, ETH, TNI-SW, UPD, VERIMAG) is responsible for training people to the new technologies and disseminating the project outcomes.
Three Pilot Projects
The MA3S
(Multi-Domain, Advanced Available Automated Systems)
Under the lead of ASTRIUM Space Transportation (with the following partners in the team : BSSE, MBDA, Astrium, Dassault, EADS CRC) deals with Highly Available systems.
The HRI
(Highly Reliable Infrastructures)
Under the lead of THALES ALENIA SPACE targets the satellite domain.
The MPC
(Multi-Platform Cooperation)
Under the lead of ASTRIUM Satellites Astrium (with the following partners in the team : MBDA, Dutch Space, EADS CRC) covers the business area of autonomous and cooperative systems.
