Developing the NASA Food System for Long-Duration Missions

Developing Experimental Models for NASA Missions with ASSL

NASA’s new age of space exploration augurs great promise for deep space exploration missions whereby spacecraft should be independent, autonomous, and smart. Nowadays NASA increasingly relies on the concepts of autonomic computing, exploiting these to increase the survivability of remote missions, particularly when human tending is not feasible. Autonomic computing has been recognized as a prom...

Activity Planning for Long Duration Space Missions

For long duration, manned exploration to be cost-effective, it is necessary to automate routine manual operations. To enable such automated control, activity plans must coordinate the activities of the crew with other automated “agents” including robots, life support systems, and vehicle systems. An important challenge is assisting the crew in using automated planning software to construct and ...

Goal-Driven Autonomy and Robust Architecture for Long-Duration Missions

During the most recent period of performance, the team has refined the major implemented functions of our MIDCA architecture at the cognitive level (Cox, 2013; Paisner, Cox, Maynord, & Perlis, 2014) and has started work on an analogous metacognitive cycle at the meta-level (Dannenhauer, Cox, Gupta, Paisner & Perlis, 2014; Perlis & Cox, 2014). We produced substantial progress on the knowledge-ri...

Dynamic Modeling of Crew Performance for Long-Duration Space Missions

Advanced Water Recovery Technologies for Long Duration Space Exploration Missions

Extended-duration space travel and habitation require recovering water from wastewater generated in spacecrafts and extraterrestrial outposts since the largest consumable for human life support is water. Many wastewater treatment technologies used for terrestrial applications are adoptable to extraterrestrial situations but challenges remain as constraints of space flights and habitation impose...