Manned spacecraft automation and robotics

Abstract

The Space Station holds promise of being a showcase user and driver of advanced automation and robotics technology. The author addresses the advances in automation and robotics from the Space Shuttle--with its high-reliability redundancy management and fault-tolerance design and its remote manipulator system--to the projected knowledge-based systems for monitoring, control, fault diagnosis, planning, and scheduling, and the telerobotic systems of the future Space Station.