Autonomy is required for manned spacecraft missions distant enough that light-time communication delays make ground-based mission control infeasible. Presently, ground controllers develop a complete schedule of power modes for all spacecraft components based on a large number of factors. The proposed architecture is an early attempt to formalize and automate this process using on-vehicle computation resources. In order to demonstrate this architecture, an autonomous electrical power system controller and vehicle Mission Manager are constructed. These two components are designed to work together in order to plan upcoming load use as well as respond to unanticipated deviations from the plan. The communication protocol was developed using "paper" simulations prior to formally encoding the messages and developing software to implement the required functionality. These software routines exchange data via TCP/IP sockets with the Mission Manager operating at NASA Ames Research Center and the autonomous power controller running at NASA Glenn Research Center. The interconnected systems are tested and shown to be effective at planning the operation of a simulated quasi-steady state spacecraft power system and responding to unexpected disturbances.


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    Titel :

    Architecture to Enable Autonomous Control of Spacecraft


    Beteiligte:
    D. R. May (Autor:in) / P. T. Dever (Autor:in) / F. J. Soeder (Autor:in) / J. P. George (Autor:in) / H. P. Morris (Autor:in) / P. S. Colombano (Autor:in) / D. J. Frank (Autor:in) / A. M. Schwabacher (Autor:in) / L. Wang (Autor:in) / D. LawLer (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2014


    Format / Umfang :

    14 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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