The objective of the activity is to develop, manufacture and test a power module with a new concept for Li-Ion battery management and with an advanced Electrical Power System Telemetry able to collect, store, retrieve and process large quantity of data related to the Status of the Power System (SA, Battery, PCDU). A digital oscilloscope for the Built-In Test function and a function to analyse in flight the degradation of solar arrays will be implemented in this new power module. Targeted Improvements:- Enabling automatisation of the assembly, integration and test; and in-flight anomaly investigations; and In-flight test data harvesting with a built-in test architecture.- To provide large quantity of data for Artificial Intelligence learning process
Description: One of the parameters used to trigger the satellite safe mode is the level of energy stored in the battery. However this parameter is an estimation and is typically set rather low, giving not much time to react. Monitoring the energy consumed by the different loads, and with an appropriate algorithm, could allow to immediately check if the satellite is on the path to enter the safe mode with a large time margin and thus the rundown time of the satellite would be reduced.
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