In early 2011, NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) released a set of technology roadmaps with the aim of fostering the development of concepts and cross-cutting technologies addressing NASA’s needs for the 2011–2021 decade and beyond. In an attempt to engage the external technical community and enhance the development program in light of scarce resources, NASA reached out to the National Research Council (NRC) to review the program’s objectives and prioritize its list of technologies. In January 2012, the NRC released its report entitled “Restoring NASA's Technological Edge and Paving the Way for a New Era in Space.” While the NRC report provides a systematic and thorough ranking of the future technology needs for NASA, it does not discuss in detail the technical aspects of the prioritized technologies (which clearly lie beyond its scope). This chapter, building upon the NRC report and an earlier assessment of NASA’s needs in terms of guidance, navigation, and control technologies, aims at providing such technical details for a selected number of high-priority technologies in the autonomous systems area. Specifically, this chapter focuses on technology area TA04 “Robotics, Tele-Robotics, and Autonomous Systems” and discusses in some detail the technical aspects and challenges associated with three high-priority TA04 technologies: “Relative Guidance Algorithms,” “Extreme Terrain Mobility,” and “Small Body/Microgravity Mobility.” The result is a unified presentation of key autonomy challenges for next-generation space missions.
Spacecraft Autonomy Challenges for Next-Generation Space Missions
Lect. Notes Control
2015-09-17
48 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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