The challenging timeline for DARPA's Orbital Express mission demanded a flexible, responsive, and (above all) safe approach to mission planning. Because the mission was a technology demonstration, pertinent planning information was learned during actual mission execution. This information led to amendments to procedures, which led to changes in the mission plan. In general, we used the ASPEN planner scheduler to generate and validate the mission plans. We enhanced ASPEN to enable it to reason about uncertainty. We also developed a model generator that would read the text of a procedure and translate it into an ASPEN model. These technologies had a significant impact on the success of the Orbital Express mission.
Automated Planning and Scheduling for Orbital Express (151)
9th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation in Space ; 2008 ; Los Angeles, CA, United States
2008-02-26
Conference paper
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Orbital Express AVGS Validation and Calibration for Automated Rendezvous
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2008
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