Radio and microprocessor technology for ensuring railway transport safety.

Abstract

Mankind is actively moving into space for solving increasingly complex problems on the Earth and finding new resources beyond it. This global cooperative and competitive process is extremely promising but also carrying fundamental risks and potential failures of the new space systems. In their design and implementation, the probability of failure of components, even the whole, should be taken into account as basic features. Such space systems need to be based on quite different organizational models and technologies allowing their creation, structuring, evolution and management to be flexible, dynamic and changeable at any moment. The planned new book, the seventh in a series on high-level distributed management and control, will describe space-oriented solutions with the help of Spatial Grasp model and Technology (SGT) based on virus-like covering and matching of terrestrial and celestial systems which will be able to self-recover from damages and loss of its components. The book will describe the latest SGT version, review the newest activities in space, especially those around the Earth which use different orbit satellites, and problems of communications and routing in multiple satellite infrastructures. It will review the space projects run in the past and some current ones related to global security and defense, and how to solve their key problems in SGT, including tracing of complexly moving high-speed objects and continuous observation of large regions and infrastructures on the Earth from space, as well as registering and tracing numerous space objects, including debris, by terrestrial database networks. It will be shown how the introduction of virtual layers for both celestial and terrestrial systems can improve solutions of global command and control of complex operations and missions under SGT. The book will also demonstrate how to provide high integrity, global awareness and even consciousness of distributed celestial systems under SGT. Other considered technology applications relate to space economy, weather prediction and international security. The book will also describe the possibilities of technology implementation which may be carried out even under standard university conditions.