Exploring Health-Enabled Mission Concepts in the Vehicle Swarm Technology Lab
Stefan R. Bieniawski, Paul Pigg, John L. Vian, Brett Bethke, Jon How · AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference · 2009
The use of health based information in mission plan ning offers the opportunity to significantly enhance overall mission assurance. D eveloping mission concepts, even at a simple level, requires coordination of multiple ass ets and determination of common interfaces suitable for heterogeneous fleets. For systems that are subject to real failures, simulation offers the challenges of developing real istic scenarios and realistic health emulation. An alternative explored here is the use of indoor, rapid prototyping labs for exploring larger scale, heterogeneous mission conce pts. Of particular interest are persistent missions were faults are a key driver in the aggreg ate mission performance. Results of flight tests with several different sample missions will b e presented. These missions range from non-cooperative to cooperative and include a range of tasks.