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The Techsat-21 autonomous space science agent

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Gregg Rabideau,

Rebecca Castano,

Russell Knight,

Ross Wainwright,

Jim Van Gaasbeck,

Pat Cappelaere,

Dean OswaldAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '02: Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2

Pages 570 - 577

https://doi.org/10.1145/544862.544880

Published: 15 July 2002 Publication History

Abstract

The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE) will fly onboard the Air Force TechSat-21 constellation of three spacecraft scheduled for launch in 2004. ASE uses onboard continuous planning, robust task and goal-based execution, model-based mode identification and reconfiguration, and onboard machine learning and pattern recognition to radically increase science return by enabling intelligent downlink selection and autonomous retargeting. In this paper we discuss how these AI technologies are synergistically integrated in a hybrid multi-layer control architecture to enable a virtual spacecraft science agent. We also describe our working software prototype and preparations for flight.

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Index Terms

The Techsat-21 autonomous space science agent
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Planning and scheduling
    2. Search methodologies
      1. Heuristic function construction

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AAMAS '02: Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2

July 2002

508 pages

ISBN:1581134800

DOI:10.1145/544862

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Maria Gini
University of Minnesota, USA
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Kyoto University, Japan
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Cristiano Castelfranchi
CNR and Università di Siena, Italy
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W. Lewis Johnson
University of Southern California, USA

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