Title
Autonomicity of NASA Missions
Abstract
NASA increasingly relies on autonomous systems concepts, not only in the mission control centers on the ground, but also on spacecraft, on rovers and other assets on extraterrestrial bodies. Space missions lacking autonomy will be unable to achieve the full range of advanced mission objectives, given that human control under dynamic environmental conditions will not be feasible, due in part, to the unavoidably high signal propagation latency and constrained data rates of mission communications links. While autonomy cost-effectively supports mission goals, autonomicity supports survivability of remote missions, especially when human tending is not feasible. As such, not only are Autonomous concepts but also Autonomicity concepts required to be brought to bear on future space missions - self-governance and self-management
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ICAC.2005.15
Seattle, WA
Keywords
Field
DocType
mission control center,survivabilityof remote mission,onfuture space mission,nasa missions,space mission,human control,autonomous concept,autonomy costeffectively,mission communications link,mission goal,advanced mission objective,autonomous systems,space missions,automatic control,spacecraft,cost effectiveness
Survivability,Systems engineering,Computer science,Autonomy,Extraterrestrial life,Mission control center,Space exploration,Autonomous system (Internet),Self-governance,Distributed computing,Spacecraft
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7965-2276-9
1
0.37
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christopher A. Rouff140950.08
mike hinchey2152.40
James L. Rash339543.67
Walter Truszkowski45920.79
Sterritt, Roy571768.34