INTELLIGENT MODULAR AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM (IMATS)

FIG. 1As an improvement to the architecture, utility, efficiency, operation, test and checkout, qualification testing and adaptability of an aerospace application system requiring the capability of providing Time/Space/Position Information (TSPI), Data Acquisition/Processing/Relay (DA/P/R), Power Generation/Distribution (PG/D), avionic solutions, navigation, command/data handling and a stand-alone orbiting satellite system technology previously requiring a user to employ and maintain many individual self-contained component boxes to achieve these capabilities, an intelligent, modular, scalable, flexible, stackable, interconnecting, adaptable, reconfigurable, consolidated and interchangeable system hereafter referred to as an Intelligent Modular Aerospace Technology System (IMATS) as shown in an exploded view is comprised of stackable modules containing a raceway EMI/RFI sealed faraday cage chamber volume and a module EMI/RFI faraday module sealed chamber volume which is capable of containing any device such as a GPS receiver, data processor, telemetry transmitter, battery power system, sensors and the like, all devices being of a totally reconfigurable and open architecture nature while being interchangeably connected in any order, internally interconnected in a plug and play fashion with an internal connector raceway system, while the object and advantage of this invention is that it incorporate all attributes necessary to make practical the single integrated box manifestations of complete modularity, scalability, flexibility, stackability, interconnectivity, adaptability, reconfigurability and interchangeability in an intelligent consolidated architecture which allows the capability to rapidly deploy a single box containing all these capabilities versus the existing aerospace systems requiring multiple black boxes to manifest the same functions, with the resultant single box IMATS replacing an array of separate black-boxes previously necessary to provide the same functions, and therefore greatly simplifying design, manufacturing, assembly and testing, and deployability, while sharply reducing cost and simultaneously providing a capability which can equally operate within benign atmospheric conditions, up through the harsh environmental realities of space without any modification.