Efficient Space Exploration through Laziness

Emil Vassev; Mike Hinchey

Context-Aware Systems and Applications. First International Conference, ICCASA 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 26-27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers

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Efficient Space Exploration through Laziness

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-36642-0_17,
    author={Emil Vassev and Mike Hinchey},
    title={Efficient Space Exploration through Laziness},
    proceedings={Context-Aware Systems and Applications. First International Conference, ICCASA 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 26-27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={ICCASA},
    year={2013},
    month={2},
    keywords={decision making space exploration autonomous spacecraft},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-36642-0_17}
}

Emil Vassev
Mike Hinchey
Year: 2013
Efficient Space Exploration through Laziness
ICCASA
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36642-0_17

Emil Vassev¹^,*, Mike Hinchey¹^,*

1: University of Limerick

*Contact email: Emil.Vassev@lero.ie, Mike.Hinchey@lero.ie

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.

Keywords: decision making space exploration autonomous spacecraft

Published: 2013-02-04

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36642-0_17