Citation
Abstract
Automation of the DSN has been under consideration for the past several years and has been justified on anticipated reduction in life cycle cost, resulting from increased productivity and reduced operations cost. This article summarizes an overall hierarchical automation philosophy along with the results of the RF automation effort undertaken 2 years ago. A brief description of each subassembly controller’s salient features, the software development process, and the common software used by these controllers will be presented. Comments will be made with respect to the relative advantages of PL/M high-level language and assembly language, the operational effectiveness of operator “Macro commands,” and the program development, and a list of suggested future effort will be given. This article provides for technology transfer and offers new ideas for consideration in future automation efforts.
Details
- Volume
- 42-37
- Published
- February 15, 1977
- Pages
- 88–104
- File Size
- 1.3 MB