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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Ant-Based Mission Planning for Constellations: A Generic Framework Applied to EO and Data Relay Missions

Authors : Evridiki V. Ntagiou, Roberto Armellin, Claudio Iacopino, Nicola Policella, Alessandro Donati

Published in: Space Operations: Inspiring Humankind's Future

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The earth observation market is growing rapidly, along with the missions’ complexity. Therefore, automated mission planning systems are being designed, allowing for operators to simply specify their intentions on a high level. In this paper, we propose an automated mission planning system based on the ants' foraging mechanism and apply it to two different mission planning problems, from an earth imaging and a data relay mission, investigating the system's ability to be generalized. We compare the planning process for the two problems and generalize on the type of planning problems the system can address.

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Metadata
Title
Ant-Based Mission Planning for Constellations: A Generic Framework Applied to EO and Data Relay Missions
Authors
Evridiki V. Ntagiou
Roberto Armellin
Claudio Iacopino
Nicola Policella
Alessandro Donati
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Space Operations: Inspiring Humankind's Future

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-11535-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-11536-4

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11536-4_28

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