Real-Time Sensor Validation Expert Microsystems, Inc. Orangevale, CA

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Real-Time Sensor ValidationExpert Microsystems,
Inc.Orangevale, CA
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INNOVATION Real-time decision algorithm
enablesvery high reliability sensor failure
detection for safety critical control systems.

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Prototype system validates 15 Space Shuttle Main
  Engine (SSME) sensors in real-time
• SSME prototype reliably detects sensor failures
  from Start to Shutdown command
• Embedded in Boeings Advanced Fault Tolerant
  Flight Computer and successfully tested
• Embedded in Lockheed-Martins Modular Rocket
  Engine Control Software and successfully tested
• COMMERCIALIZATION
• Follow-on contracts from NASA totaling 300,000
  have created two full time equivalent jobs in
  1997/98
• Commercial applications in chemical process and
  power generation industries anticipated

Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Real Time
Sensor Validation

• GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
• Under development for real-time Space Shuttle
  telemetry data analysis and NASA mission
  operations support
• Under evaluation for military aeropropulsion
  system data monitoring

Lewis Research CenterTechnical Area - Space
Propulsion 3-012
1996 Phase I, NAS3-27484, 6/98 NASA Contact -
June Zakrajsek Company Contact - Randall Bickford