Intelligent or autonomous control of an entire spacecraft is a major technology that must be developed to enable NASA to meet its human exploration goals. NASAs current long term human space platform, the International Space Station, is in low earth orbit with almost continuous communication with the ground based mission control. This permits the near real-time control by the ground of all of the core systems including power. As NASA moves beyond Low Earth Orbit, the issues of communication time-lag and lack of communication bandwidth beyond geosynchronous orbit does not permit this type of operation. This paper presents the work currently ongoing at NASA to develop an architecture for an autonomous power control system as well as the effort to assemble that controller into the framework of the vehicle mission manager and other subsystem controllers to enable autonomous control of the complete spacecraft. Due to the common problems faced in both space power systems and terrestrial power system, the potential for spin-off applications of this technology for use in micro-grids located at the edge or user end of terrestrial power grids for peak power accommodation and reliability are described.


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    Title :

    Overview of Intelligent Power Controller Development for Human Deep Space Exploration


    Contributors:
    F. J. Soeder (author) / P. T. Dever (author) / M. A. McNelis (author) / F. R. Beach (author) / M. L. Trase (author) / R. May (author)

    Publication date :

    2014


    Size :

    28 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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