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Planning and Resource Management in an Intelligent Automated Power Management SystemPower system management is a process of guiding a power system towards the objective of continuous supply of electrical power to a set of loads. Spacecraft power system management requires planning and scheduling, since electrical power is a scarce resource in space. The automation of power system management for future spacecraft has been recognized as an important R&D goal. Several automation technologies have emerged including the use of expert systems for automating human problem solving capabilities such as rule based expert system for fault diagnosis and load scheduling. It is questionable whether current generation expert system technology is applicable for power system management in space. The objective of the ADEPTS (ADvanced Electrical Power management Techniques for Space systems) is to study new techniques for power management automation. These techniques involve integrating current expert system technology with that of parallel and distributed computing, as well as a distributed, object-oriented approach to software design. The focus of the current study is the integration of new procedures for automatically planning and scheduling loads with procedures for performing fault diagnosis and control. The objective is the concurrent execution of both sets of tasks on separate transputer processors, thus adding parallelism to the overall management process.
Document ID
19920012035
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Morris, Robert A. (Florida Inst. of Tech. Melbourne, FL, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 1991
Publication Information
Publication: Texas A and M Univ., NASA(ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, 1991, Volume 1
Subject Category
Spacecraft Propulsion And Power
Accession Number
92N21278
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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