Situation Awareness of Onboard System AutonomyWe have developed intelligent agent software for onboard system autonomy. Our approach is to provide control agents that automate crew and vehicle systems, and operations assistants that aid humans in working with these autonomous systems. We use the 3 Tier control architecture to develop the control agent software that automates system reconfiguration and routine fault management. We use the Distributed Collaboration and Interaction (DCI) System to develop the operations assistants that provide human services, including situation summarization, event notification, activity management, and support for manual commanding of autonomous system. In this paper we describe how the operations assistants aid situation awareness of the autonomous control agents. We also describe our evaluation of the DCI System to support control engineers during a ground test at Johnson Space Center (JSC) of the Post Processing System (PPS) for regenerative water recovery.
Document ID
20070018257
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Schreckenghost, Debra (Metrica, Inc. Houston, TX, United States)
Thronesbery, Carroll (S and K Technologies, Inc. Webster, TX, United States)
Hudson, Mary Beth (S and K Technologies, Inc. Webster, TX, United States)