Activity Planning for Long Duration Space Missions

Abstract

For long duration, manned exploration to be cost-effective, it is necessary to automate routine manual operations. To enable such automated control, activity plans must coordinate the activities of the crew with other automated “agents ” including robots, life support systems, and vehicle systems. An important challenge is assisting the crew in using automated planning software to construct and monitor the execution of these multi-agent control plans. In this paper we describe how humans and automated planners will work together for activity planning.