Daniel P Schrage
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Title: Functional Safety Management (FSM) for complex engineered systems
Biography
Biography: Daniel P Schrage
Abstract
The Functional Safety Management (FSM) discipline ensures that soft ware, hardware and electronic systems tasked with protecting life and property reliably perform their missions. International standards such as ARP4754A, ARP4761, IEC 61508, EN50126/8/9, MoD 00-56, DoD 882D and DO-178B/C, DO-254 and DO-297 provide a set of development lifecycle activities for achieving this by identifying hazardous situations that could occur, evaluating the risk that a hazard could cause an accident and reducing that risk by building high integrity safety functions and operational procedures into safetyrelated
systems. For the past 20 years, I have been teaching a project driven graduate course, Safety By Design (SBD) and Flight Certifi cation (FC) using FSM methods. In the 2018 Georgia Tech Spring Semester SBD and FC Course four complex engineered systems projects were conducted: A stopped rotor Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), a commercial transport aircraft Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) upgrade, an uber elevate air taxi safety and certifi cation study and a safety assessment for launching the Yellow Jacket Space Program Sounding Rocket, used in this presentation to demonstrate how the FSM discipline can be implemented. Th e Yellow Jacket Space Program (YJSP) is a student-led organization founded in 2015 and organized as a Georgia Tech club in 2016. Th e program objectives are to provide students with real-world experience in rockets and rocket propulsion and provide a platform for outreach to students of all academic levels in the State of Georgia. YJSP is achieving these objectives by developing a sounding rocket that will take a scientifi c payload into space and return it safely to the ground.