Title :
Swarm Technology at NASA: Building Resilient Systems
Author :
Vassev, Emil ; Sterritt, Roy ; Rouff, Christopher ; Hinchey, Mike
Abstract :
Developing space systems is a complex task, driven by standards and safety requirements to ensure reliability of sophisticated hardware and software. Future NASA missions will focus on the development of swarm-based spacecraft systems comprising multiple self-organizing and autonomous spacecraft.
Keywords :
aerospace computing; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; software reliability; space vehicles; autonomous spacecraft; future NASA missions; hardware reliability; resilient systems; safety requirements; self-organizing spacecraft; software reliability; space systems; swarm technology; swarm-based spacecraft systems; Control systems; Fault tolerance; NASA; Reliability; Software engineering; Software reliability; Space technology; Space vehicles; control structure reliability; reliability; testing and fault-tolerance;
Journal_Title :
IT Professional
DOI :
10.1109/MITP.2012.18
