On Board Planning for Autonomous Spacecraft
Nicola Muscettola, Ben Smith, Chuck Fry, Steve Chien, Kanna Rajan, Gregg Rabideau, David Yan · 1999
The Deep Space One (DS 1) mission, scheduled to fly in 1998, will be the first spacecraft to feature an on-board planner. The planner is part of an artificial intelligence based control architecture that comprises a planner/scheduler, a plan execution engine, and a modelbased fault diagnosis and reconfiguration engine. This autonomy architecture reduces mission costs and increases mission quality by enabling high-level commanding, robust fault responses, and opportunistic responses to serendipitous events. This paper describes the on-board pirumrr1g md scheduling component of the DS l autonomy architecture.