Simulator Frameworks

ICS has been in the Real-Time, Automated Command and Control business since 1988. In our aerospace sector, experience has shown that high-fidelity simulators that can provide accurate, dependable command and telemetry behavior are essential for Ground System Checkout and Operator Training. That's precisely why a wide variety of customers such as Lockheed Martin, The Aerospace Corporation, EarthWatch, Ball Aerospace, Ames Research Laboratory, Honeywell, the Naval Research Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University and Applied Physics Lab, NASA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, Aerojet, and the Army have relied on SCL as the core component of highly automated simulation environments. 

The SCL product is a rule-based Expert System used to provide real-time command, control and monitoring for Satellite Control Centers, Simulators, Testsets, and on-board satellite control systems. That flexibility makes it an ideal component to build powerful simulation models.  SCL is designed to provide periodic as well as event driven high-rate, low-rate, and status telemetry packets using pre-defined packet formats. The command response behavior is specified by a full-featured scripting language, making it easy to develop configurable and repeatable test scenarios. Beyond that, the extensible SCL framework facilitates adding custom components to provide additional capabilities if the simulation requirements change, which they often do.  Advanced visualization tools allow the user a view into the current configuration and operation of the simulator.

So when it comes time to choose a flexible, scalable, extensible tool that can build powerful simulation models...look to SCL. 

Past Customers

SBIRS - High Lockheed Martin Payload Simulation

FUSE Payload Simulation I&T and Mission Operations

JCIT Tactical Radio Data Simulations

Standard Mobile Segment (SMS) BMDO/USAF FleetSatCom Satellite Simulator

Geosat Follow-On (GFO) US Navy/Ball Aerospace Satellite Simulator

Delta 181/183 Attitude Control System Simulator for vehicle dynamics

A2C2S Simulator Tactical Link Message Simulator

Earthwatch/ITT Commercial Remote Sensing Satellite High Fidelity Software Simulation

GE-Harris Commercial Locomotive Simulator

Components of Simulator Frameworks

• SCL Real Time Engine

• SCL Compiler

• Message Software Bus

• Packet Generator 

• Scheduling Manager

• Command Execution Manager

• Graphical User Interface

• SML - Command/Telemetry Definitions and Packet Formats.

• GUI Bridge - LabView for PCs, Sammi for UNIX

Related Links

• SCL for Control Centers
• SCL for Flight Software and Embedded Systems
• SCL for Testsets
• eSCL - Business Intelligence Infrastructure
• SCL Overview 
• SCL Total Solutions 
• SCL on the FUSE mission 

White Papers

• REDUCING THE COST OF SPACECRAFT GROUND SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONS - Design and Development of the Satellite Control Center (SCC) for the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) Mission 
• PRESENTED AT SPACEOPS 98 - Lessons Learned from the Design and Development of the Satellite Control Center (SCC) for the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) Missions 
• PRESENTED AT THE FLAIRS 99 SYMPOSIUM - Distributed Space-Segment Control Using SCL
• JOURNAL OF SPACECRAFT AND ROCKETS - Spacecraft Autonomous Operations Experiment Performed During the Clementine Lunar Mission