Integrating Software Technologies in RAXEM2 - AI Meets Information Technology

Author

Bernardi, Giulio ; Cesta, Amedeo ; Cortellessa, Gabriella

Author_Institution

Planning & Scheduling Team, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

19-23 July 2009

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

50

Abstract

This paper describes aspects of RAXEM2, an intelligent software system developed to support human mission planners in the daily task to plan uplink commands for the MARS EXPRESS mission at the European Space Agency. A first system called RAXEM has been in operational use at the ESA-ESOC mission control center since Summer 2007. During 2008 authors have been working to a new version of the tool to both incorporate new functionalities and capture the entire life-cycle of the plan uplink problem. RAXEM2 has been released for daily use on March 2009 replacing previous work practice. The new tool combines a flexible AI-based automated algorithm, a user-friendly interaction front-end, and several functionalities for information management, overall guaranteeing continuity of work practice. The paper touches upon various aspects of the new system and comments on how a key factor for success has been the integration of such different modules in a unique comprehensive support environment.

Keywords

Mars; aerospace computing; artificial intelligence; human computer interaction; ESA-ESOC mission control center; European Space Agency; MARS EXPRESS mission; RAXEM2 intelligent software system; artificial intelligence; flexible AI-based automated algorithm; human mission planner; information management; information technology; plan uplink problem; uplink command; user-friendly interaction front-end; Artificial intelligence; Control systems; Humans; Information management; Information technology; Intelligent systems; Mars; Software systems; Space missions; Space technology; intelligent systems; mission planning support; space mission software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology, 2009. SMC-IT 2009. Third IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pasadena, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3637-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMC-IT.2009.14

Filename

5226851