The VEGA Planning Toolkit: A Flexible Tool for Planning Systems Development
Marc Niézette · SpaceOps 2012 Conference · 2012
This paper introduces the VEGA Planning Toolkit (VPT), a flexible tool that supports the development of automated planning systems. VPT is the successor of the Enhanced Library for Operational Planning Systems (EKLOPS), which has been successfully used to support the daily operations of Envisat, Mars Express, Venus Express, and ESTRACK, the ESA ground station network. The paper presents the characteristics of the tool and its origin and provides an example of deployment in the context of Earth Observation mission planning.