High-Autonomy Control of Space Resource Processing Plants
Abstract
A high-autonomy intelligent command and control architecture has been developed
for unmanned plants to conduct scientific experiments or process local planetary
resources. Two applications are: a biotechnology laboratory designed for Space
Station Freedom and a working prototype of a plant for producing oxygen from the
Martian atmosphere. A distributed command and control architecture has been
designed to teleoperate such plants in a high-level task oriented mode with
supervisory control from one or several remote sites. The architecture
integrates advanced network communication concepts with recent advances in
autonomous intelligent control. A complete testbed has been developed to
demonstrate several applications of the architecture.
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