TY - GEN
T1 - Autonomicity of NASA missions
AU - Rouff, Christopher
AU - Hinchey, Michael
AU - Rash, James
AU - Truszkowski, Walter
AU - Sterritt, Roy
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - NASA increasingly relies on autonomous systems concepts, not only in the mission control centers on the ground, but also on spacecraft, on rovers and other assets on extraterrestrial bodies. Space missions lacking autonomy will be unable to achieve the full range of advanced mission objectives, given that human control under dynamic environmental conditions will not be feasible, due in part, to the unavoidably high signal propagation latency and constrained data rates of mission communications links. While autonomy cost-effectively supports mission goals, autonomicity supports survivability of remote missions, especially when human tending is not feasible. As such, not only are Autonomous concepts but also Autonomicity concepts required to be brought to bear on future space missions - self-governance and self-management.
AB - NASA increasingly relies on autonomous systems concepts, not only in the mission control centers on the ground, but also on spacecraft, on rovers and other assets on extraterrestrial bodies. Space missions lacking autonomy will be unable to achieve the full range of advanced mission objectives, given that human control under dynamic environmental conditions will not be feasible, due in part, to the unavoidably high signal propagation latency and constrained data rates of mission communications links. While autonomy cost-effectively supports mission goals, autonomicity supports survivability of remote missions, especially when human tending is not feasible. As such, not only are Autonomous concepts but also Autonomicity concepts required to be brought to bear on future space missions - self-governance and self-management.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33745494158&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICAC.2005.15
DO - 10.1109/ICAC.2005.15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33745494158
SN - 0769522769
SN - 9780769522760
T3 - Proceedings - Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2005
SP - 387
EP - 388
BT - Proceedings - Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2005
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2005
Y2 - 13 June 2005 through 16 June 2005
ER -