Self healing computers

Students at the University of Arizona are working on hybrid hardware/ software systems. They are groping on using machine intelligence to allow spacecraft to heal themselves. In some cases NASA lose touch with the spacecraft when critical system fails. The mission is compromised because engineers are not able to get their hands on the hardware.

This could be made possible using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) to build self healing systems. They combine software and hardware to produce flexible systems that is reconfigurable at chip level. When carried at the chip level, the software can be set up mimic hardware. This allows reconfiguration of FPGA that can make it to emulate different kinds of hardware.

The objective of the research is to go beyond predicting a fault to using a self healing system that can fix the predicted fault before it occurs. This may lead to the development of extremely stable computer systems that has the ability to operate for longer periods of time without failure.

I think this will be useful in our world too and not just outer space. We can wait and see when this project reaches completion.



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