Using ASPEN to automate EO-1 activity planning

Author

Sherwood, Rob ; Govindjee, Anita ; Yan, David ; Rabideau, Gregg ; Chien, Steve ; Fukunaga, Alex

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

21-28 Mar 1998

Firstpage

145

Abstract

This paper describes the application of an automated planning and scheduling system to the NASA Earth Orbiting 1 (EO-1) mission. The planning system, ASPEN, is used to autonomously schedule the daily activities of the satellite. The satellite and operations constraints are encoded within a software model used by the planner. This paper includes a description of the planning system and the associated modeling language. We then discuss how we encoded the EO-1 spacecraft operations with the modeling language. We conclude with a description of the end-to-end planning system as we envision it for EO-1

Keywords

aerospace computing; artificial satellites; object-oriented languages; planning; scheduling; ASPEN; EO-1 activity planning; EO-1 spacecraft operations; NASA Earth Orbiting 1 mission; automated planning; end-to-end planning; modeling language; operations constraints; planning system; scheduling; software model; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Costs; Earth; Laboratories; Object oriented modeling; Propulsion; Satellites; Space vehicles; Thermal management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Snowmass at Aspen, CO

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4311-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.1998.685789

Filename

685789