Limits to ground control in autonomous spacecraft

Limits to Ground Control in Autonomous SpacecraftAlfred

In this paper the autonomy concept used by ESA and NASA is critically evaluated. Moreover, a more proper ground-control/spacecraft organizational structure is proposed on the basis of a new, more elaborated concept of autonomy. In an extended theoretical discussion its deenitional properties and functionalities are established. The rather basic property of adaptivity leads to the categorization...

Semi-Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle Control System

Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) have advantages over people in a number of different applications, ranging from sentry duty, scouting hazardous areas, convoying goods and supplies over long distances, and exploring caves and tunnels. Despite recent advances in electronics, vision, artificial intelligence, and control technologies, fully autonomous UGVs are still far from being a reality. Curren...

Autonomous Control of Multiple Spacecraft during Close Proximity Operations

Deductive Executive For Autonomous Spacecraft �

The New Millennium Remote Agent NMRA will be the rst AI system to control an actual spacecraft The space craft domain places a strong premium on autonomy and requires dynamic recoveries and robust concurrent execu tion all in the presence of tight real time deadlines changing goals scarce resource constraints and a wide variety of pos sible failures To achieve this level of execution robustness...

Plan Execution for Autonomous Spacecraft

The New Millennium Remote Agent (NMRA) vSll be the first AI system to control an actual spacecraft. The spacecraft domain raises a number of challenges for planning and execution, ranging from extended agency and long-term planning to dynamic recoveries and robust concurrent execution, all in the presence of tight real-time deadlines, changing goals, scarce resource constraints, and a v-ide var...