Model-Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis System for NASA Mars Subsurface Drill Prototype

Author

Balaban, Edward ; Cannon, Howard N. ; Narasimhan, Sriram ; Brownston, Lee S.

Author_Institution

NASA Ames Res. Center / QSS, Ames

fYear

2007

fDate

3-10 March 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

13

Abstract

The Drilling Automation for Mars Environment (DAME) project, led by NASA Ames Research Center, is aimed at developing a lightweight, low-power drill prototype that can be mounted on a Mars lander and be capable of drilling down several meters below the Mars surface for conducting geology and astrobiology research. The DAME drill system incorporates a large degree of autonomy -from quick diagnosis of system state and fault conditions to taking the appropriate recovery actions -while also striving to achieve as many of the operational objectives as possible.

Keywords

Mars; aerospace instrumentation; drilling; fault diagnosis; geophysical techniques; planetary surfaces; Ames Research Center; Haughton Crater on Devon Island; Mars lander; Mars subsurface drill prototype; Mars surface; NASA; drilling automation for Mars environment project; fault diagnosis system; model-based fault detection; Arctic; Drilling; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; Geology; Inference mechanisms; Mars; NASA; Prototypes; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0524-6

Electronic_ISBN

1095-323X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2007.352947

Filename

4161685