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Space station advanced automationIn the development of a safe, productive and maintainable space station, Automation and Robotics (A and R) has been identified as an enabling technology which will allow efficient operation at a reasonable cost. The Space Station Freedom's (SSF) systems are very complex, and interdependent. The usage of Advanced Automation (AA) will help restructure, and integrate system status so that station and ground personnel can operate more efficiently. To use AA technology for the augmentation of system management functions requires a development model which consists of well defined phases of: evaluation, development, integration, and maintenance. The evaluation phase will consider system management functions against traditional solutions, implementation techniques and requirements; the end result of this phase should be a well developed concept along with a feasibility analysis. In the development phase the AA system will be developed in accordance with a traditional Life Cycle Model (LCM) modified for Knowledge Based System (KBS) applications. A way by which both knowledge bases and reasoning techniques can be reused to control costs is explained. During the integration phase the KBS software must be integrated with conventional software, and verified and validated. The Verification and Validation (V and V) techniques applicable to these KBS are based on the ideas of consistency, minimal competency, and graph theory. The maintenance phase will be aided by having well designed and documented KBS software.
Document ID
19900017984
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Woods, Donald
(McDonnell-Douglas Space Systems Co. Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
May 1, 1990
Publication Information
Publication: NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications
Subject Category
Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance
Accession Number
90N27300
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS9-18200
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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