Mission Operations with an Autonomous Agent (1998)
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@MISC{Pell98missionoperations,
author = {Barney Pell and Scott R. Sawyer and Nicola Muscettola and Benjamin Smith and Douglas E. Bernard},
title = {Mission Operations with an Autonomous Agent},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
The Remote Agent (RA) is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system which automates some of the tasks normally reserved for human mission operators and performs these tasks autonomously on-board the spacecraft. These tasks include activity generation, sequencing, spacecraft analysis, and failure recovery. The RA will be demonstrated as a flight experiment on Deep Space One (DS1), the first deep space mission of the NASA's New Millennium Program (NMP). As we moved from prototyping into actual flight code development and teamed with ground operators, we made several major extensions to the RA architecture to address the broader operational context in which RA would be used. These extensions support ground operators and the RA sharing a long-range mission profile with facilities for asynchronous ground updates; support ground operators monitoring and commanding the spacecraft at multiple levels of detail simultaneously; and enable ground operators to provide additional knowledge to the RA, su...
