Open Source OpenHarmony will go into space in 2022!

IT House reported on January 11 that the OpenHarmony open source project is an open source project incubated and operated by the Open Atomic Open Source Foundation, and operated by the OpenHarmony Project Group Working Committee of the Open Atomic Open Source Foundation. OpenHarmony is an open source distributed operating system donated by Huawei to the basic capabilities of the intelligent terminal operating system, which is built by global developers, with the characteristics of all scenarios and distribution, and is an operating system that is "full (all-domain) new (new generation) open (open source) release (open)".

After more than half a year of preparation, the first meeting of the Open Atomic Open Source Foundation OpenAtom OpenHarmony ("OpenHarmony") Project Group Space Working Group ("OHIS") was held in Beijing on January 6, and representatives of the founding members of the working group from aerospace universities, research institutes, commercial space companies and secondary schools attended the meeting.

Professor Yu Xiaozhou, leader of the OHIS working group and Dalian University of Technology, introduced the latest work progress of the working group, especially the combination prospects of OpenHarmony and micro-nano satellite technology. Micro-nano satellites generally refer to 1-100 kg satellites, and nearly 2,000 satellites have been launched into orbit. The operating systems used in micro-nano satellites such as VxWorks, FreeRTOS, μC/OS are all developed by large foreign companies. In today's increasingly complex software and hardware systems of on-board systems, the adoption of the OpenHarmony operating system will help the generalization and modular design of the spaceborne system, shorten the development cycle, and improve the reliability and real-time of micro-nano satellites. At present, the key special project of international cooperation in key research and development of the Ministry of Science and Technology, led by Dalian University of Technology and jointly undertaken by the University of Liege of Belgium, the Liege Space Center, the Institute of Microsatellite Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Society of Astronautics, has been officially approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Chinese and Belgian experts will explore exoplanets 4.2 light-years away based on micro-nano satellite platforms. A series of core systems for the project, such as attitude control and propulsion, will use the OpenHarmony operating system. IT House learned that in addition, through cooperation with multiple domestic commercial satellites, the OpenHarmony operating system will also be carried with multiple missions in 2022.

Professor Wang Zhaokui of Tsinghua University, deputy leader of the OHIS working group, made a report entitled "Real-time Situational Awareness and Intelligent Processing of Imaging Satellites". Real-time intelligent situational awareness is an important direction for the development of future application satellites, Wang Zhaokui combined with the research situation of this team, introduced the research progress and software and hardware requirements of intelligent methods such as deep learning in satellite real-time situational awareness, and put forward OpenHarmony's technical needs and development suggestions for intelligent processing on the future star.

Focusing on the potential application of OpenHarmony in the field of space target detection and identification, Professor Xing Fei of Tsinghua University comprehensively analyzed the generation of space targets and the threats they pose to the operation of spacecraft, and combined with China's target monitoring projects in deep space and low Earth orbit, presented the important role that Open Harmony can play in the future from a scientific and engineering perspective. Based on the resources of Tsinghua University such as the Future Chip Beijing High-tech Center, Xing Fei elaborated on the advantages and long-term positioning of OpenHarmony such as satellite intelligent chips, hardware mutual aid, and multi-machine migration from the three levels of satellite underlying chips, core devices and functional components, and believed that it is expected to bring great development opportunities to China's satellite systems and achieve the transcendence of spaceX Starlink plan.

Professor Zhang Guo of Wuhan University introduced the construction plan, progress and future integration with OpenHarmony technology of the "Light and Sound" constellation, which will achieve quasi-real-time remote sensing monitoring with a time resolution of 1 hour and a spatial resolution of 1 meter, which can be used as a partial replacement for the ground hydrological station and the ground water quality station of the "space hydrological station" and the "space water quality station". And the constellation integrates the drone group and the ground monitoring site, which will become an integrated intelligent perception network of sky and ground, which can better serve the water conservancy, agricultural environmental protection and other industries.

Geng Saimeng from Aerospace Maker (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. introduced the relevant planning of OHIS education products to enter primary and secondary schools.

Focusing on the OpenHarmony open source ecology, Yang Mutian from Zhongke Weilan Technology Co., Ltd. introduced the security issues of the open source software supply chain for the aerospace field with the title of "Aerospace Open Source, Security Foundation - Open Source Ecological Security Vulnerability Perception Technology", and put forward a series of suggestions for building a new generation of security infrastructure and thus improving the security level of the industry.

Delegates also discussed the OHIS Working Group Charter and the future direction of space exploration based on OpenHarmony. As the OpenHarmony open source project enters the space sector, a number of achievements will be implemented in 2022, gradually achieving the ambitious goals of OpenHarmony In Space.