Modeling, Simulation, and Control of an Extraterrestrial Oxygen
Production Plant
Abstract
The immediate objective is the development of a new methodology for simulation
of process plants used to produce oxygen and/or other useful materials from
local planetary resources. Computer communication, artificial intelligence,
smart sensors, and distributed control algorithms are being developed and
implemented so that the simulation or an actual plant can be controlled from
a remote location. The ultimate result of this research will provide the
capability for teleoperation of such process plants which may be located on
Mars, Luna, an asteroid, or other objects in space. A very useful near-term
result will be the creation of an interactive design tool, which can be used
to create and optimize the process/plant design and the control strategy.
This will also provide a vivid, graphic demonstration mechanism to convey
the results of other researchers to the sponsor.
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