Automated Planning and Scheduling for Goal-Based Autonomous Spacecraft

Authors:
Steve Chien;Benjamin Smith;Gregg Rabideau;Nicola Muscettola;Kanna Rajan
Affiliations:
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Venue:
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Year:
1998

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Abstract

Automated planning and scheduling technology offers great promise in enabling revolutionary goal-based autonomous spacecraft. Such a spacecraft would be aware of its goals and would automatically select and perform activities to achieve these goals. Goals would include science goals (for example, performing a mapping campaign using the ultraviolet spectrometer) and engineering goals (for example, maintaining the propulsion system's health). Because planning and scheduling technology would allow goal-based commanding, it would enable a dramatic reduction in operations costs, as well as onboard response to faults or science opportunities occurring during the mission. This article describes how automated planning and scheduling technology enables a new class of autonomous spacecraft and describes ongoing efforts at NASA to develop and deploy this technology.