Integrated Development Environment for Core Flight Software Based Projects

Windhover Labs proposes to create an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to enable rapid software development of NASArsquo;s Core Flight System (CFS) projects by managing and auto generating flight software configuration and table data, integrating real time commands and telemetry, and providing an integrated scripting engine for testing. Open extensible, flight software combined with a highly integrated development environment will allow manufacturers and researchers to quickly develop, verify, and validate novel design concepts. Windhover Labs has developed a CFS based open-source flight software backbone and ecosystem, called Airliner, for Groups 1 and 2 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) (less than 55 lbs) that is designed specifically for small Single Board Computer (SBC) based avionics boards. The ecosystem already includes a robust simulation, extensible ground control system, as well as a Python based test automation system. This proposal will develop the integrated development environment that, when combined with Airliner, will facilitate and accelerate the development of the next generation of UASs of all configurations.nbsp;