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A successful plan for space exploration requires the commissioning of fleets of robots to prospect, mine, build, inspect and maintain structures, and generally assist astronauts, rendering the overall mission as safe as reasonably achievable for human beings, the most precious resource. The authors are currently developing, under the support of NASA, a Robot Supervision Architecture (RSA) which will allow a small number of human operators to safely and efficiently telesupervise a fleet of autonomous robots. This represents a significant advance over the state of the art, where currently one robot is overseen by a group of skilled professionals. In this paper we describe some aspects of this work, including the architecture itself for coordination of human and robot work, failure and contingency management, high-fidelity telepresence, and operation under limited bandwidth. We also present highlights of our first application: wide area prospecting of minerals and water in support of sustained outposts on the Moon and on Mars. NASA has initiated the implementation of its Vision for Space Exploration by planning to return human beings to the Moon by 2018 and then proceed to Mars by 2030. This bold, risky, and costly enterprise will require that all possible actions be taken to maximize the astronauts' safety and efficiency. The authors believe that this can be facilitated by fleets of robots autonomously performing a wide variety of tasks such as in-space inspection, maintenance and assembly; regional surveys, mineral prospecting and mining; habitat construction and in-situ resource utilization (ISRU); etc. These robots will be telesupervised by a small number of human ground controllers and/or astronauts, who will be able to share control with and teleoperate each individual robot whenever necessary, all from a safe, "shirtsleeve" |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2006 | AAAI Spring Symposium: To Boldly Go Where No Human-Robot Team Has Gone Before | contingency management,in situ resource utilization |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Mars Exploration Program,Architecture,Systems engineering,Simulation,Computer science,Project commissioning,Space exploration,Artificial intelligence,Rendering (computer graphics),Robot,Machine learning | Conference | 6 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.68 | 5 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alberto Elfes | 1 | 1470 | 416.36 |
| John Dolan | 2 | 977 | 92.41 |
| Gregg Podnar | 3 | 18 | 17.16 |
| Sandra Mau | 4 | 156 | 7.59 |
| Marcel Bergerman | 5 | 225 | 34.88 |