Jena-Optronik Gmbh

Dieter Schoedlbauer

Uwe Schmidt

Rolf Hartmann

A hybrid network of kinematic sensors of an AOCS, made up of a star sensor including an optical camera head, and a processing unit provided as the central master processing unit, and additional kinematic sensors, each made up of a sensor element and a processing unit connected to the central processing unit via a first bus. An additional processing unit is equivalent to the processing unit and is a redundant central processing unit. The central processing units and&#x2014;are connected via an additional bus of a spacecraft provided with the hybrid network with the aid of a central computer. The particular active central processing units-provide all kinematic sensors with a uniform time pulse via a synchronization line, and supply the central computer with hybridized kinematic measuring data formed according to a method for hybridization based on the synchronous kinematic measuring data of the star sensor and the measuring data of the other sensors.

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Munich, Germany

Dieter Schoedlbauer