Published Research
Peer-reviewed and institutionally published engineering research behind MicroCore Systems.
The engineering judgement applied to client work is grounded in formal research. This page lists published work by Jonathan Edwards, held in institutional repositories with permanent DOI identifiers so it can be cited and verified independently.
The research below covers embedded systems designed for one of the least forgiving environments there is: Low Earth Orbit. The same reasoning about radiation, fault tolerance, and power budgeting carries directly into hardware built for salt air, engine bays, and farm machinery.
Why This Matters for Client Work
Space-grade reasoning applied to marine, agricultural, and industrial hardware.
Designing electronics for orbit forces a discipline that most commercial projects never demand. You cannot service the board. You cannot reflash it by hand. Every fault has to be anticipated, detected, and recovered from by the system itself, on a power budget that leaves no headroom.
That mindset shapes how MicroCore approaches field hardware. Watchdogs, brown-out behaviour, memory error handling, and safe recovery paths get designed in early rather than patched in after a field failure. A charge controller on a mooring and a payload in orbit share the same basic problem: nobody is coming out to press reset.