Publication detail

Design and Validation of an Innovative Data Bus Architecture for CubeSats

VAN DER LINDEN, S. BOUWMEESTER, J. POVALAČ, A.

Original Title

Design and Validation of an Innovative Data Bus Architecture for CubeSats

Type

abstract

Language

English

Original Abstract

Since the first successful CubeSat missions in the early 2000s, payloads for this form factor have emerged and have increased in technical performance level. This trend is likely to continue in the near future. However, despite the subsequent increase in data load and the increasing modularity of components, there are no clear trends for a new electro-mechanical interface standard. The only widely adopted data bus in CubeSats, I2C, is limited in terms of data rate and reliability. Custom solutions overcoming these limitations are generally not well documented, and especially implementation results in CubeSats are lacking. Therefore, there exists a need to increase the performance and reliability of the CubeSat bus platform. This paper proposes an innovative CubeSat data bus architecture, including performance and reliability tests.

Keywords

CubeSat, data bus, CAN, I2C, USB, RS485

Authors

VAN DER LINDEN, S.; BOUWMEESTER, J.; POVALAČ, A.

Released

27. 10. 2016

Location

London, UK

Pages from

1

Pages to

12

Pages count

12

BibTex

@misc{BUT129238,
  author="Stefan {van der Linden} and Jasper {Bouwmeester} and Aleš {Povalač}",
  title="Design and Validation of an Innovative Data Bus Architecture for CubeSats",
  booktitle="Proceedings of 14th Reinventing Space Conference, 24-27 October 2016, London, UK.",
  year="2016",
  pages="1--12",
  address="London, UK",
  note="abstract"
}