Logistics issues in autonomous food production systems for extended duration space exploration

Author

Naghshineh-Pour, Reza ; Williams, Nicole ; Ram, Bala

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1253

Abstract

To enable longer space missions, systems for production of food in space will be necessary. The Autonomous Life Support System (ALSS) program of NASA is an on-going research effort in this direction. This research uses intelligent agents to relieve the crew of substantial efforts relating to the food production tasks. In this paper, we propose a contract net protocol approach to schedule transportation activities within this environment. A discrete-event simulation model using QUEST software (by Deneb Robotics, Inc.) is used to represent the flow of the transportation traffic within the system

Keywords

aerospace computing; discrete event simulation; logistics data processing; software agents; space vehicles; transportation; Autonomous Life Support System program; NASA; QUEST software; autonomous food production systems; contract net protocol approach; discrete-event simulation model; extended duration space exploration; intelligent agents; space missions; transportation activity scheduling; transportation traffic flow; Contracts; Discrete event simulation; Intelligent agent; Logistics; NASA; Production systems; Robots; Space missions; Transport protocols; Transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference Proceedings, 1999 Winter

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5780-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.1999.816849

Filename

816849