On-board planning for New Millennium Deep Space One autonomy

Author

Muscettola, Nicola ; Fry, Chuck ; RaJan, Kanna ; Smith, Ben ; Chien, Steve ; Rabideau, Gregg ; Yan, David

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Div., NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

1-8 Feb 1997

Firstpage

303

Abstract

The Deep Space One (DS1) mission, scheduled to fly in 1998, will be the first NASA spacecraft to feature an on-board planner. The planner is part of an artificial intelligence based control architecture that comprises the planner/scheduler, a plan execution engine, and a model-based fault diagnosis and reconfiguration engine. This autonomy architecture reduces mission costs and increases mission quality by enabling high-level commanding, robust fault responses, and opportunistic responses to serendipitous events. This paper describes the on-board planning and scheduling component of the DS1 autonomy architecture

Keywords

aerospace computing; aerospace control; backtracking; command and control systems; computerised navigation; fault location; intelligent control; navigation; planning (artificial intelligence); robust control; scheduling; search problems; software agents; special purpose computers; temporal reasoning; virtual reality; DS1 mission; NASA spacecraft; New Millennium Deep Space One autonomy; artificial intelligence based control architecture; autonomous spacecraft; autonomy architecture; compatibility tree; fortuitous events; goal prioritization; high-level commanding; mission quality; model-based fault diagnosis; on-board navigator; on-board planning; opportunistic responses; plan execution engine; planner/scheduler; reconfiguration engine; reduced mission costs; remote agent; robust fault responses; serendipitous events; virtual presence; Contracts; Costs; Engines; Laboratories; NASA; Propulsion; Robustness; Space missions; Space technology; Space vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 1997. Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

Snowmass at Aspen, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3741-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.1997.574421

Filename

574421