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FASTER Engineering Model

6.5.8 Pilot Interface Block

The pilot interface block has been added to control the FASTER status monitor

which is a Java-based software. This block collects a series of variables and send it via

UDP connection to the EPIA EN15000 which runs the FASTER status monitor. The

software displays a series of three lights and four numerical values:

 System Status, continuously scans the UDP port for packets, when the system

is down (PC/104+ powered off) a red light is presented instead of green one;

 Acquisition Status, shows the camera arm switch position, green light means

that the camera is enabled and ready to acquire images;

 GPS Status, reads the GPS sentence counter and shows a green light when

GPS receiver is working correctly, in addition a numeric string inside the

light shows the GPS quality value;

 Numerical displays show the aircraft position, altitude, speed and the number

of acquired frames.

The block scheme is presented in Figure 77 and the FASTER system monitor in Figure

78.

Figure 77: FASTER status monitor block scheme

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