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PSU Tech Talk: AltOS — Building Amateur Rocketry Software
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AltOS — Building Amateur Rocketry Software
Keith Packard
Altus Metrum
[email protected]
Amateur rocketry enthusiasts build rockets somewhere between Estes and
NASA sizes. Operating as sounding rockets, fights range from 1000m to
more than 30km and are generally passively fin stabilized. Two of the
significant challenges are deploying the recovery system components
(generally parachutes) and providing tracking to locate the rocket after
flight. Altus Metrum is a project building hardware and software for
amateur rocketry, and AltOS is the suite of software running in the
rocket avionics and on the ground to track and analyze the flight.
This talk will discuss the unique system challenges presented by
rocketry, including high acceleration and speeds, automatic control of
explosives and other flammable materials and the wide range of technical
skills of the participants. Included will be a presentation of the
hardware components used in the system and how that has driven the
architecture of the AltOS flight software over four years of
development.
About the speaker:
Keith Packard has been developing open source software since 1986, focusing
on the X Window System since 1987, designing and implementing large parts of
the current implementation. He is currently a Principal Engineer with Intel's
Open Source Technology Center. Keith received a Usenix Lifetime Achievement
award in 1999 and sits on the X.org foundation board.
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