The Mars Exploration Rovers Mars '03 mission is one of NASA's most ambitious science missions to date. The rovers will be launched in the summer of 2003 with each rover carrying instruments to conduct remote and in-situ observation to elucidate the planet's past climate, water activity, and habitability. Science is the primary driver of MER and, as a consequence, making best use of the scientific instruments, within the available resources, is a crucial aspect of the mission. To address this critically, the MER project has selected MAPGEN (Mixed-Initiative Activity Plan GENerator) as an activity planning tool. MAPGEN combines two exiting systems, each with a strong heritage: APGEN the Activity Planning tool from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Europs Planning/Scheduling system from NASA Ames Research Center. This paper discusses the issues arising from combining these tools in the context of this mission.
MAPGEN : mixed initiative planning and scheduling for the Mars '03 MER mission
7th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics adn Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS) ; 2003 ; Nara City, Japan
2003-05-19
Conference paper
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English
Mixed-Initiative Activity Planning for Mars Rovers
NTIS | 2005
|Mixed-Initiative Activity Planning for Mars Rovers
NTRS | 2005
|NASA Human Mission to Mars Initiative
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2000
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