Project Code And Documentation

The property rights to the code and design of the AOCS framework are vested in the University of Konstanz. A public free license is granted to use and modify its code subject to the restrictions listed in this copyright notice and disclaimer of responsibility. Note in particular that the code is incomplete and its standard is that of a university research prototype. It is therefore not suitable to be deployed in an industrial application.

This web site gives access to the framework code in raw format (as .h and .cpp files) and to the framework documentation as pdf files. The documents can be downloaded as one zip file (about 10 MBytes). This zip files contains the following documents:

• An AOCS Description document that informally describes the domain at which the framework is targeted 
• An AOCS Framework - Concept Level Description Document that describes the framework as a whole. This document is provided for information only. It is superceded by the book: A. Pasetti, Software Frameworks and Embedded Control Systems, Springer Verlag, LNCS, Vol. 2231
• The framework is divided into framelets. For each framelet, a concept and architectural description document is provided
• The prototype framework does not implement all the features foreseen in its architectural design. The document: AOCS Framework – Framework Prototype Definition gives an overview of the implementation status of the prototype framework.
• The prototype framework was used to instantiate a prototype AOCS for testing and demonstration purposes. Its functionalities are described in the document: AOCS Framework – AOCS Prototype Definition.
• The framework instantiation process is described in the document: AOCS Framework – Framework Instantiation.
• The results of the tests performed on the AOCS prototype are described in the document: AOCS Framework – AOCS Prototype Test Report.
• Selected implementation aspects of the AOCS framework are described in document: AOCS Framework – Implementation Notes.

The design methodology followed in the AOCS Framework project is described in the book: A. Pasetti, Software Frameworks and Embedded Control Systems, Springer Verlag, LNCS, Vol. 2231. This book also gives an overview of the framework architecture.

The AOCS framework was first developed under the Visual Studio (VS) environment and then ported to a Unix workstation for integration with the ERC32 simulator. The VS files can be unpacked from this zip file. The ERC32 files are contained in this zip file.

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