The Move to Talk, Talk to Move: Tightly Integrated Communication and Control for Coordinated Swarms of Small Spacecraft project will build on existing research on collaborative autonomy of multi-agent systems and design techniques that will enable coordinated communication and control of spacecraft. The success of many space exploration and science missions hinges on real-time monitoring of time-varying and/or geographically distributed phenomena. This monitoring can be achieved using a swarm of small spacecraft, which collect data about the environment and share information within the swarm of spacecraft. Current space exploration missions typically issue commands to control each spacecraft individually from Earth, and the data gathered by each spacecraft is also transmitted to Earth separately via X-band communication over the Deep Space Network (DSN). This approach is expensive, slow, and unreliable. Many coordinated tasks amongst a swarm of autonomous agents (or, specifically, small spacecraft) rely on communication. Existing control, estimation, and decision algorithms often assume that mostly reliable communications are available; however, this is often not the case in actual environments and thus is a barrier to operating swarms of small spacecraft.


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    Title :

    Move to Talk, Talk to Move: Tightly Integrated Communication and Control for Coordinated Swarms of Small Spacecraft


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    Conference:

    Interplanetary Small Satellite Conference ; 2018 ; Pasadena, CA, US


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    No indication


    Language :

    English







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