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Process control and recovery in the Link Monitor and Control Operator AssistantThis paper describes our approach to providing process control and recovery functions in the Link Monitor and Control Operator Assistant (LMCOA). The focus of the LMCOA is to provide semi-automated monitor and control to support station operations in the Deep Space Network. The LMCOA will be demonstrated with precalibration operations for Very Long Baseline Interferometry on a 70-meter antenna. Precalibration, the task of setting up the equipment to support a communications link with a spacecraft, is a manual, time consuming and error-prone process. One problem with the current system is that it does not provide explicit feedback about the effects of control actions. The LMCOA uses a Temporal Dependency Network (TDN) to represent an end-to-end sequence of operational procedures and a Situation Manager (SM) module to provide process control, diagnosis, and recovery functions. The TDN is a directed network representing precedence, parallelism, precondition, and postcondition constraints. The SM maintains an internal model of the expected and actual states of the subsystems in order to determine if each control action executed successfully and to provide feedback to the user. The LMCOA is implemented on a NeXT workstation using Objective C, Interface Builder and the C Language Integrated Production System.
Document ID
19930022956
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Lee, Lorrine
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Hill, Randall W., Jr.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
February 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, The Sixth Annual Workshop on Space Operations Applications and Research (SOAR 1992)
Subject Category
Communications And Radar
Accession Number
93N32145
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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