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FASTER Engineering Model

Figure 66: FASTER airborne internal and computing unit inside view of the rack box

6.5 FASTER EM Software Description

To allow the proper functioning of all hardware components was necessary to

develop appropriate software algorithms. In particular, because many of the Windows-

based applications for the tunnel in the sky visualization and camera control, only needed

to be fine tuned, most of the efforts were spent on the realization of the Real Time

Operating System that equips the Advantech PC104+ board. This was the most critical

application indeed, because of its key role in the entire processing chain: except for

images, all the other data is collected by this processing unit.

To speed up the development process, the model was made in the Matlab/Simulink

environment, using many of the functions that the suite provides, like the xPC Target

solution. This toolbox offers some advantages for prototyping, testing and deploying real-

time systems using standard PC hardware. The target application is designed and built on

a Matlab workstation and could be based on a Simulink model; the same model can also

be run in nonreal-time for debugging purposes. Then an executable target application can

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