Robust Periodic Planning and Execution for Autonomous Spacecraft

Pell, Barney; Gat, Erann; Keesing, Ron; Muscettola, Nicola; Smith, Benjamin D.

Robust Periodic Planning and Execution for Autonomous Spacecraft

Barney Pell, Erann Gat, Ron Keesing, Nicola Muscettola, Benjamin D. Smith

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Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Planning and Scheduling. Pages 1234-1238.

Abstract

The New Millennium Remote Agent (NMRA) will be the first on-board 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 wide variety of possible failures. NMRA is one of the first systems to integrate closed-loop planning and execution of concurrent temporal plans. It is also the first autonomous system that will be able to achieve a sustained, multi-stage, multiyear mission without communication or guidance from earth.

Barney Pell, Erann Gat, Ron Keesing, Nicola Muscettola, and Benjamin D. Smith. 1997. Robust Periodic Planning and Execution for Autonomous Spacecraft. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-97. IJCAI, 1234–1238. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/178

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