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Planning Coverage Campaigns for Mission Design and Analysis: Clasp for the Proposed DESDynI MissionMission design and analysis present challenges in that almost all variables are in constant flux, yet the goal is to achieve an acceptable level of performance against a concept of operations, which might also be in flux. To increase responsiveness, our approach is to use automated planning tools that allow for the continual modification of spacecraft, ground system, staffing, and concept of operations while returning metrics that are important to mission evaluation, such as area covered, peak memory usage, and peak data throughput. We have applied this approach to DESDynI (Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice) mission design concept using the CLASP (Compressed Large-scale Activity Scheduler/Planner) planning system [7], but since this adaptation many techniques have changed under the hood for CLASP and the DESDynI mission concept has undergone drastic changes, including that it has been renamed the Earth Radar Mission. Over the past two years, we have run more than fifty simulations with the CLASP-DESDynI adaptation, simulating different mission scenarios with changing parameters including targets, swaths, instrument modes, and data and downlink rates. We describe the evolution of simulations through the DESDynI MCR (Mission Concept Review) and afterwards.
Document ID
20130009130
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Knight, Russell
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
McLaren, David
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Hu, Steven
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 27, 2013
Publication Date
September 4, 2012
Subject Category
Space Sciences (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: i-SAIRAS: International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space
Location: Turin
Country: Italy
Start Date: September 4, 2012
End Date: September 6, 2012
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
DESDynI (Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice)
mission evaluation
CLASP (Compressed Large-scale Activity Scheduler/Planner)
automated planning systems

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