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5: Validation and verification of ground control station

Aim: To study about the procedures for verification and validation of ground control station.

Theory:
A ground control station (GCS) is a land or sea-based control center that provides the
facilities for human control of unmanned vehicles in the air or in space.

DO-254, Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware is a document

providing guidance for the development of airborne electronic hardware, published by RTCA,
Incorporated. The DO-254 standard was formally recognized by the FAA in 2005 via AC 20-152
as a means of compliance for the design of complex electronic hardware in airborne systems.
Complex electronic hardware includes devices like Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs),
Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs).
The DO-254 standard is the counterpart to the well-established software standard
RTCA DO-178B. With DO-254, the FAA has indicated that avionics equipment contains both
hardware and software, and each is critical to safe operation of aircraft. There are five levels of
compliance, A through E, which depend on the effect a failure of the hardware will have on the
operation of the aircraft. Level A is the most stringent, defined as "catastrophic" (e.g. loss of the
aircraft), while a failure of Level E hardware will not affect the safety of the aircraft. Meeting
Level A compliance for complex electronic hardware requires a much higher level of verification
and validation than Level E compliance.

The validation process provides assurance that the hardware item derived requirements is
correct and complete with respect to system requirements allocated to the hardware item.
 Validation process means compliance completeness assessment of developed equipment and
its functional purpose. Requirements and assumptions validation represents process that
guarantees their correctness and completeness providing compliance with the airworthiness
standards. The validation process supports the development of requirements, which are
determined by the need to perform functional tasks and safety. Because of equipment
development process complexity validation is held as multilevel process performed at all
lifecycle stages including operation. At every stage of validation the increasing confidence in
requirements correctness and completeness shall be provided. Validation process goal is to check
requirements correctness and completeness. Also validation goal is to prevent abundant functions
in systems that are being developed and in associated systems. Validation process input data may
include system description (including expected operation conditions), system requirements,
system architecture description and DAL. Methods used for system requirements and
assumptions validation shall be set in the validation plan. Required validation level is set by the
DAL of the function to which the requirement is applied.

The verification process provides assurance that the hardware item implementation meets
all of the hardware requirements, including derived requirements.

A widely used industry mnemonic for the difference is:

 Validation - designing the right system!
 Verification - designing the system right!

Result:

Thus the study about the verification and validation of ground control station been done.