Title :
The past, present, and future of ground station automation within the DSN
Author :
Fisher, Forest ; Mutz, Darren ; Estlin, Tara ; Paal, Leslie ; Law, Emily ; Golshan, Nasser ; Chien, Steve
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes an architecture for an autonomous Deep Space Tracking Station (DS-T). The architecture targets fully automated routine operations encompassing scheduling and resource allocation, antenna and receiver predict generation, track procedure generation from service requests, and closed loop control and error recovery for the station subsystems. This architecture has been validated by the construction of a prototype DS-T station, which has performed a series of demonstrations of autonomous ground station control for downlink services with NASA´s Mars Global Surveyor
Keywords :
aerospace computing; aerospace control; closed loop systems; ground support systems; resource allocation; scheduling; tracking; DSN; Mars Global Surveyor; NASA; antenna predict generation; architecture; automated routine operations; autonomous Deep Space Tracking Station; closed loop control; downlink services; error recovery; ground station automation; prototype DS-T station; receiver predict generation; resource allocation; scheduling; station subsystems; track procedure generation; Automatic generation control; Automation; Error correction; Prototypes; Receiving antennas; Resource management; Satellite ground stations; Space stations; Target tracking; Tracking loops;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Snowmass at Aspen, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5425-7
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.1999.794304
