The autonomous sciencecraft embedded systems architecture

Author

Chien, Steve ; Sherwood, Rob ; Tran, Daniel ; Cichy, Benjamin ; Rabideau, Gregg ; Castaño, Rebecca ; Davies, Ashley ; Frye, Stuart ; Trout, Bruce ; D´Agostino, Jeff ; Shulman, Seth ; Mandl, Dan ; Boyer, Darrell ; Hayden, Sandra ; Sweet, Adam ; Christa, Sc

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2005

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

3927

Abstract

An Autonomous Science Agent has been flying onboard the Earth Observing One spacecraft since 2003. This software enables the spacecraft to autonomously detect and responds to science events occurring on the Earth such as volcanoes, flooding, and snow melt. This agent includes artificial intelligence software systems that perform science data analysis, deliberative planning, and run-time robust execution. This software is in routine use to fly the EO-1 mission. In this paper we discuss the architecture used to integrate these systems and lessons learned from its multi-year flight on EO-1.

Keywords

aerospace computing; embedded systems; software agents; software architecture; space vehicles; Autonomous Science Agent; EO-1 mission; Earth Observing One spacecraft; artificial intelligence software system; deliberative planning; run-time robust execution; science data analysis; science event; three layer architecture; Artificial intelligence; Computer architecture; Embedded system; Event detection; Floods; Geoscience; Snow; Software systems; Space vehicles; Volcanoes; Agents; Autonomy; Three Layer Architectures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9298-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571759

Filename

1571759