Controlling and Testing a Space Instrument by an AI Planner.
Maria Dolores R-Moreno, Manuel Prieto, D. Daniel Meziat Luna, Julio Medina, César Martı́n · International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems · 2002
The PESCA instrument has been designed and built with the purpose of studying the Solar Energetic Particles and the Anomalous Cosmic Rays. It will be part of the Russian PHOTON satellite payload that is scheduled to launch in December of 2001. The instrument comprises two different blocks: the PESCA Instrument Amplification and Shaping Electronics (PIASE), for the amplification and analog to digital conversion, and the PESCA Instrument Control and Acquisition System (PICAS), for the control of the whole instrument and manage the communication with the satellite. An Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) software has been implemented using AI planning techniques to control and test the PESCA instrument and the communication process with the satellite. The tool allows complete and autonomous control, verification, validation and calibration of the PESCA instrument.