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Re:Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers runni... by janderland on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:20PM (#26197568)
When I worked on military autonomous vehicles (which I’d expect to be similar to these) we always had at least two system on board: 1) A real-time flight controller, 2) One or more Linux computers, networked via an on-board LAN which performed all the other tasks.
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Re:Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers runni... by senden9 on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:41PM (#26197801)
I worked with some people of that particular JPL software team to setup a similar setup like the Mars helicopter for a earth UAV.

Can confirm that multiple real time systems are used. They are controlled by a non real time Linux system.

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