Utilizing TestBed and Remote Component Environment (RCE) for Collaborative Research
April 16, 2021
NASA and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) initiated a five-year collaboration beginning in late 2020. One of the collaboration areas is focused on “Utilizing TestBed and Remote Component Environment (RCE) for Collaborative Research.” The NASA TestBed team and the DLR RCE team have provided training sessions on their respective tools. NASA conducted TestBed training on February 11, 2021, and DLR conducted RCE training on April 8, 2021. Both teams were composed of software developers and researchers from DLR and NASA Ames and Langley Research Centers; Air Traffic Management Exploration (ATM-X) project research leads from the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Network, Impacts Analysis, and Flight Performance technical areas were also represented. The training sessions included an overview of each toolset, potential use cases to help define our inter-tool interface and message exchange schema, and connecting DLR tools to TestBed. Future trainings are planned in the next several months.