AUTONOMOUS AND AUTONOMIC SYSTEMS: WITH APPLICATIONS TO NASA INTELLIGENT SPACECRAFT OPERATIONS AND EXPLORATION SYSTEMS by Walt Truszkowski, Harold L. Hallock, Christopher A. Rouff ( 9781846282324 )

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Title:

AUTONOMOUS AND AUTONOMIC SYSTEMS: WITH APPLICATIONS TO NASA INTELLIGENT SPACECRAFT OPERATIONS AND EXPLORATION SYSTEMS

By:

Walt Truszkowski, Harold L. Hallock, Christopher A. Rouff

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1846282322

ISBN 13:

9781846282324

Publisher:

SPRINGER LONDON LTD

Pub. date:

1 November, 2009

Series:

NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering

Pages:

289

Description:

This unique book provides an in-depth discussion of autonomous and autonomic systems, their interdependencies, differences and similarities. Current and pending issues in these evermore increasingly important subjects are highlighted and discussed.

Synopsis:

In the early 1990s, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center started researching and developing autonomous and autonomic ground and spacecraft control systems for future NASA missions. This research started by experimenting with and developing expert systems to automate ground station software and reduce the number of people needed to control a spacecraft. This was followed by research into agent-based technology to develop autonomous ground c- trol and spacecraft. Research into this area has now evolved into using the concepts of autonomic systems to make future space missions self-managing and giving them a high degree of survivability in the harsh environments in which they operate. This book describes much of the results of this research. In addition, it aimstodiscusstheneededsoftwaretomakefutureNASAspacemissionsmore completelyautonomousandautonomic.Thecoreofthesoftwareforthesenew missions has been written for other applications or is being applied gradually in current missions, or is in current development. It is intended that this book should document how NASA missions are becoming more autonomous and autonomic and should point to the way of making future missions highly - tonomous and autonomic. What is not covered is the supporting hardware of these missions or the intricate software that implements orbit and at- tude determination, on-board resource allocation, or planning and scheduling (though we refer to these technologies and give references for the interested reader).

Illustrations:

7 Tables, black and white; 56 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 289 p.

Publication:

Imprint:

Springer London Ltd

Returns:

Returnable

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