Intelligent Control and Communication Systems
Abstract
We describe progress on the development of a high autonomy intelligent command and
control architecture for unmanned plants that conduct scientific experiments or
process local planetary resources. Examples include a science rover suitable for
lunar or martian deployment and an automated process plant for production of oxygen
from carbon dioxide. 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 and modern man/machine interfaces with recent advances in
autonomous intelligent control. A complete working prototype is being developed
to demonstrate the architecture. Experience with, and lessons learned from, this
development project are reported.
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