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Asteroid Exploration with Autonomic SystemsNASA is studying advanced technologies for a future robotic exploration mission to the asteroid belt. The prospective ANTS (Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm) mission comprises autonomous agents including worker agents (small spacecra3) designed to cooperate in asteroid exploration under the overall authoriq of at least one ruler agent (a larger spacecraft) whose goal is to cause science data to be returned to Earth. The ANTS team (ruler plus workers and messenger agents), but not necessarily any individual on the team, will exhibit behaviors that qualify it as an autonomic system, where an autonomic system is defined as a system that self-reconfigures, self-optimizes, self-heals, and self-protects. Autonomic system concepts lead naturally to realistic, scalable architectures rich in capabilities and behaviors. In-depth consideration of a major mission like ANTS in terms of autonomic systems brings new insights into alternative definitions of autonomic behavior. This paper gives an overview of the ANTS mission and discusses the autonomic properties of the mission.
Document ID
20040079373
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Truszkowski, Walt
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Rash, James
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Rouff, Christopher
(Science Applications International Corp. McLean, VA, United States)
Hinchey, Mike
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence And Robotics
Meeting Information
Meeting: IEEE ECBS/EASE 2004
Location: Brno
Country: Czech Republic
Start Date: May 24, 2004
End Date: May 27, 2004
Sponsors: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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