Automatic Deployment of an RPAS Mission Manager to an ARINC-653 Compliant System

the development process of avionics system requiring a high level of safety is subjected to rigorous development and verification standards. in order to accelerate and facilitate this process, we present a testbed that uses a suite of methods and tools to comply with aerospace standards for certification. to illustrate the proposed methodology, we designed a mission management system for remotely piloted aircraft systems (rpas) that was deployed on a particular run-time execution platform called xtratum, an arinc-653 compliant system developed in our research group. the paper discusses the system requirements, the software architecture, the key issues for porting designs to xtratum, and how to automatize this process. results show that the proposed testbed is a good platform for designing and qualifying avionics applications.