Paper Info
Title
Remote Agent: An Autonomous Control System for the New Millennium
Abstract
On May 17th 1999, the Remote Agent (RA) became the first Artificial Intelligence based closed loop autonomous control system to take control of a spacecraft. The RA commanded NASA's New Millennium Deep Space One spacecraft when it was 65 million miles away from earth. For a period of one week this system commanded DSl's Ion Propulsion System, its camera, its attitude control and navigation systems. A primary goal of this experiment was to provide an on-board demonstration of spacecraft autonomy. This demonstration included both nominal operations with goal-oriented commanding and closed-loop plan execution, and fault protection capabilities with failure diagnosis and recovery, on-board replanning following unrecoverable failures, and system-level fault protection. This paper describes the Remote Agent Experiment and the model based approaches to Planning and Scheduling, Plan Execution and Fault Diagnosis and Recovery technologies developed at NASA Ames Research Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2000
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
closed loop control,constraint-based planning,scheduling,temporal networks,spacecraft autonomy
Field
DocType
Volume
Research center,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Jet propulsion,Real-time computing,Attitude control,Ion thruster,NASA Deep Space Network,Spacecraft,Autonomous control
Conference
54.0
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0922-6389
19
1.30
References 
Authors
7
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kanna Rajan150636.45
Douglas E. Bernard2241.91
Gregory Dorais3191.30
Edward B. Gamble4293.77
Bob Kanefsky568573.79
James Kurien611713.42
William Millar7191.30
Nicola Muscettola881473.87
P. Pandurang Nayak973375.04
Nicolas F. Rouquette10464.30
Benjamin D. Smith1116514.91
William Taylor12191.30
Yu-Wen Tung13469.06