Applied Intelligence | 2021
On-board autonomy operations for OPS-SAT experiment
Abstract
Upcoming space missions are requiring a higher degree of on-board autonomy operations to increase quality science return, to minimize closed-loop space-ground decision making, and to enable new scenarios. Artificial Intelligence technologies like Machine Learning and Automated Planning are becoming more and more popular as they can support data analytics conducted directly on-board as input for the on-board decision making system that generates plans or updates them while being executed. This paper describes the planning and execution architecture under development at the European Space Agency to target this need of autonomy for the ops-sat mission.