RPRS: a reactive plan repair strategy for rapid response to plan failures of deep space missions

Chao Chen, Rui Xu, Shengying Zhu, Zhaoyu Li, Huiping Jiang*

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Abstract

There are always various uncertainties in a deep space exploration mission, which induce a significant impact on plan execution and may cause plan failures. In such case, remote control from the Earth is too late to handle that problem in time, because of the long distance between the probe and the ground station. Therefore, an autonomous reactive plan repair strategy RPRS (Reactive Plan Repair Strategy) for deep space missions is proposed, which enables the probe to recover autonomously and quickly from plan failures with unsatisfactory resources or logical conditions without human intervention. In this strategy, the concept of forwarding dock state is defined to effectively manage the temporal information of planned actions and fortuitous events during execution, to support the repair work of subsequent GRDR (Global Resource Diagnosis & Repair algorithm) and TDPR (Tiny Deviation Plan Repair search algorithm). This strategy iteratively performs a search on the forwarding dock state whenever the original plan fails, i.e., a shortage of resources or invalid logical conditions, and is tested empirically to demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness with enough domain knowledge.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)155-162
Number of pages8
JournalActa Astronautica
Volume175
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2020

Keywords

  • Forwarding dock state
  • Plan failures
  • Plan repair
  • Reactive plan

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