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8. Autonomy

Authors : Claudio Iacopino, Phil Palmer

Published in: Distributed Space Missions for Earth System Monitoring

Publisher: Springer New York

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Missions involving multiple spacecraft, autonomously working together, have become of great interest in the last decade as they offer a number of scientific and engineering advantages. This trend is responsible for an increasing demand on mission planning and scheduling systems able to coordinate the different spacecraft and to allocate tasks amongst them. New approaches are therefore needed to handle this new level of complexity, combining together autonomous solutions for the ground and space segment. The chapter is organized as follows: after an introduction on the motivations of using autonomy solutions for space missions, sect. 8.2 presents a short survey on the applications of autonomy in space Operations. The section identifies the focus of the chapter in Mission Planning and Scheduling, one the most critical aspect for distributed mission. Section 8.3 gives the state of the art regarding mission planning and scheduling applications first on single platforms and then on distributed platforms. Section 8.4 explains the most popular technology for distributed missions, the multi agent paradigm. The section is not meant to cover all the aspects of this technology. It focuses instead on the challenges related to the new trends of self-organizing systems and natural-inspired approaches, techniques that can offer promising advantages for distributed missions.

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Title: Autonomy
Authors: Claudio Iacopino
Phil Palmer
Publisher: Springer New York
Book: Distributed Space Missions for Earth System Monitoring
Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-4540-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-4541-8

Copyright Year: 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4541-8_8

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