The Boeing Company

Christopher Andre Mouton

Ketao Liu

Leonard Alan Plotke

Brian C Thompson

Richard Louis Singleton

Subhash Chandra Hegde

Christopher J Epple

A method and apparatus for detecting moving vehicles. A determination is made as to whether a number of vehicles are present in a video data stream received from a camera system. In response to the number of vehicles being present, a number of speed measurements for each vehicle in the number of vehicles are obtained from a radar system. A determination is made as to whether a speed of a set of vehicles in the number of vehicles exceeds a threshold. In response to a determination that the speed of the set of vehicles exceeds the threshold, a report is created for the set of the vehicles exceeding the threshold.

Speed detector for moving vehicles

A system and method for SpaceWire network management are disclosed involving a network and a network manager (NM). The network includes a plurality of switches and a plurality of nodes. The switches and nodes do not have any preprogrammed knowledge of the network topology and/or of their unit identification (UID) code. In one or more embodiments, the network is a spacecraft communications network. In at least one embodiment, the method for managing the SpaceWire network comprises the network manager (NM) determining link connectivity of the network; verifying the switches are properly configured to allow for logical address routing; and verifying the nodes are configured to process, receive, and transmit data through the network. In some embodiments, the method further comprises determining newly added units, removed units, and/or unresponsive units in the network, and propagating this information through an active unit table.

SpaceWire network management

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Christopher Andre Mouton