Title :
Self-Awareness in Autonomous Nano-Technology Swarm Missions
Author :
Vassev, Emil ; Hinchey, Mike
Author_Institution :
Lero-the Irish Software Eng. Res. Centre, Univ. of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Abstract :
NASA is currently exploring swarm-based technologies, targeting the development of prospective exploration missions to explore regions of space, where single large spacecraft would be impractical. Such systems are envisioned to operate autonomously and their success factor depends highly on self-awareness capabilities. This research emphasizes the development of algorithms and prototyping models for self-awareness in swarm-based space-exploration systems. This article tackles the self-initiation and self-healing properties of swarm-based space-exploration systems.
Keywords :
aerospace computing; fault tolerant computing; nanotechnology; optimisation; software prototyping; space research; space vehicles; NASA; autonomous nanotechnology swarm missions; prospective exploration missions; prototyping models; self-awareness capability; self-healing property; self-initiation; spacecraft; success factor; swarm-based space-exploration systems; swarm-based technology; Ash; Maintenance engineering; Markov processes; Probability distribution; Space exploration; Space vehicles; Uncertainty; ANTS; NASA; self-awareness; self-healing;
Conference_Titel :
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASOW), 2011 Fifth IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ann Arbor, MI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2029-1
DOI :
10.1109/SASOW.2011.8
