Efficient space exploration through laziness

Emil Vassev, Mike Hinchey

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Abstract

Autonomous behavior and onboard decision making is the backbone of robotic space exploration. The enormous distance and communication latency make such missions hardly controllable from Earth and external decision making may overlap and often contradict with the onboard decision making. We propose a behavior model based on some sort of "laziness" that helps spacecraft evaluate external instructions and eventually postpone their execution, or even discard some, when those are considered inappropriate by the internal spacecraft decision making.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationContext-Aware Systems and Applications - First International Conference, ICCASA 2012, Revised Selected Papers
Pages168-175
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event1st International Conference on Context-Aware Systems and Applications, ICCASA 2012 - Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Duration: 26 Nov 201227 Nov 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Volume109 LNICST
ISSN (Print)1867-8211

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Context-Aware Systems and Applications, ICCASA 2012
Country/TerritoryViet Nam
CityHo Chi Minh City
Period26/11/1227/11/12

Keywords

  • autonomous spacecraft
  • decision making
  • space exploration

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