Agent Technologies for Space Applications: The DAFA Experience

Author

Amigoni, Francesco ; Brambilla, Andrea ; Lavagna, Michèle ; Blake, Rick ; Le Duc, Ian ; Page, Jonathan ; Page, Oliver ; de la Rosa Steinz, S. ; Steel, Robin ; Wijnands, Quirien

Author_Institution

Politec. di Milano, Milano, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 3 2010

Firstpage

483

Lastpage

489

Abstract

The Distributed Agents For Autonomy (DAFA) study has been performed for ESA/ESTEC by SciSys UK Ltd, VEGA, and Politecnico di Milano in 2008-2009. The aim of DAFA study has been to examine the application of distributed agent technology to increase the overall performance of a space mission. It is important to note that the distribution should be seen on a system level, including both earth- and space-based agents. From an analysis of past, present, and future space missions, the ExoMars mission was identified as a mission where the application of agent technology seemed profitable. After analysis of different agent frameworks, JADE was chosen to develop a software prototype for a scenario based on an ExoMars-like mission. This demonstrator has been used to highlight the advantages of a DAFA approach for the definition of the mission architecture.

Keywords

aerospace computing; multi-agent systems; planning (artificial intelligence); DAFA Experience; ExoMars mission; JADE; Politecnico di Milano; SciSys UK Ltd; VEGA; distributed agent technology; distributed agents for autonomy; software prototype; space applications; Earth; Mars; Planning; Relays; Space missions; Space vehicles; ExoMars; JADE; autonomous agents; space operations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8482-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4191-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.207

Filename

5614719