A planning approach to monitor and control for deep space communications

Author

Fisher, Forest ; Knight, Russell ; Engelhardt, Barbara ; Chien, Steve ; Alejandre, Niko

Author_Institution

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

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

311

Abstract

In recent years with the large increase in the number of space missions at NASA and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), the demand for deep space communications services to command and collect data from these missions has become more difficult to manage. In an attempt to increase the efficiency of operating deep space communications antennas, we are developing a prototype system to perform monitor, control, execution and recovery in order to automate the operations of the Deep Space Network (DSN) communication antenna stations. The authors describe the antenna automation problem, the GASPER planning and scheduling system, how GASPER is used to generate antenna track plans and perform monitor and control during execution, and future work utilizing dynamic planning technology

Keywords

closed loop systems; mobile antennas; planning (artificial intelligence); scheduling; space communication links; telecommunication control; CLEaR; Deep Space Network; GASPER planning; JPL; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; NASA; antenna track plans; artificial intelligence; communication antenna stations; control; deep space communication; dynamic planning; efficiency; monitor; prototype; recovery; scheduling; space missions; Communication system control; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Laboratories; NASA; Propulsion; Space missions; Space stations; Space technology; Technology planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5846-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2000.878238

Filename

878238