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MOS 2.0: Modeling the Next Revolutionary Mission Operations SystemDesigned and implemented in the 1980's, the Advanced Multi-Mission Operations System (AMMOS) was a breakthrough for deep-space NASA missions, enabling significant reductions in the cost and risk of implementing ground systems. By designing a framework for use across multiple missions and adaptability to specific mission needs, AMMOS developers created a set of applications that have operated dozens of deep-space robotic missions over the past 30 years. We seek to leverage advances in technology and practice of architecting and systems engineering, using model-based approaches to update the AMMOS. We therefore revisit fundamental aspects of the AMMOS, resulting in a major update to the Mission Operations System (MOS): MOS 2.0. This update will ensure that the MOS can support an increasing range of mission types, (such as orbiters, landers, rovers, penetrators and balloons), and that the operations systems for deep-space robotic missions can reap the benefits of an iterative multi-mission framework.12 This paper reports on the first phase of this major update. Here we describe the methods and formal semantics used to address MOS 2.0 architecture and some early results. Early benefits of this approach include improved stakeholder input and buy-in, the ability to articulate and focus effort on key, system-wide principles, and efficiency gains obtained by use of well-architected design patterns and the use of models to improve the quality of documentation and decrease the effort required to produce and maintain it. We find that such methods facilitate reasoning, simulation, analysis on the system design in terms of design impacts, generation of products (e.g., project-review and software-delivery products), and use of formal process descriptions to enable goal-based operations. This initial phase yields a forward-looking and principled MOS 2.0 architectural vision, which considers both the mission-specific context and long-term system sustainability.
Document ID
20110015580
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Delp, Christopher L.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Bindschadler, Duane
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Wollaeger, Ryan
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Carrion, Carlos
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
McCullar, Michelle
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Jackson, Maddalena
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Sarrel, Marc
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Anderson, Louise
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lam, Doris
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
March 5, 2011
Publication Information
ISBN: 978-1-4244-7351-9
Subject Category
Space Sciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
IEEEAC Paper 1512
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
ground support systems
object-oriented methods
aerospace computing
software architecture
aerospace robotics

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