On-board Timeline Validation and Repair: A Feasibility Study
Maria Fox, Derek Long, Leslie Baldwin, Graeme Neff Wilson, Mark D. Wood, D. Jameux, Ruth S. Aylett · Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde) · 2006
We report on the progress and outcome of a recent ESAfunded project (MMOPS) designed to explore the feasibility of on-board reasoning about payload timelines. The project sought to examine the role of on-board timeline reasoning and the operational context into which it would fit. We framed a specification for an on-board service that fits with existing practices and represents a plausible advance within sensible constraints on the progress of operations planning. We have implemented a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of such a system and have used it to show how science gathering operations might be improved by its deployment.