High-autonomy control of space resource processing plants

Author

Schooley, L.C. ; Zeigler, B.P. ; Cellier, F.E. ; Wang, F.Y.

Author_Institution

Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA

Volume

13

Issue

3

fYear

1993

fDate

6/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

39

Abstract

A high-autonomy intelligent command and control architecture developed for unmanned plants that can conduct scientific experiments or process local planetary resources is described. Two applications are discussed: a biotechnology laboratory designed for Space Station Freedom and a working prototype of a plant for producing oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. A distributed command and control architecture designed to teleoperate such plants in a high-level task-oriented mode with supervisory control from one or several remote sites is also described. The architecture integrates advanced network communication concepts and modern man/machine interfaces with recent advances in autonomous intelligent control. A complete testbed has been developed to demonstrate several applications of the architecture.<>

Keywords

aerospace control; control systems; distributed control; intelligent control; man-machine systems; telecontrol; Space Station Freedom; advanced network communication; aerospace control; biotechnology laboratory; distributed command and control architecture; high autonomy control; high-level task-oriented mode; intelligent control; man/machine interfaces; space resource processing plants; supervisory control; teleoperation; Biotechnology; Command and control systems; Computer architecture; Control systems; Force control; Intelligent control; Laboratories; Prototypes; Space stations; Supervisory control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Control Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1066-033X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/37.214942

Filename

214942