ANTS for Human Exploration and Development of Space
ANTS for Human Exploration and Development of Space
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10.1109/aero.2003.1235057
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2003-03
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S. Curtis;W. Truszkowski;M. Rilee;P. Clark
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S. Curtis;W. Truszkowski;M. Rilee;P. Clark
拟议的自主纳米技术群(ANTS)是NASA人类探索和发展太空任务(HEDS)设想的人/机器人任务的使能架构。蚂蚁的设计原则借鉴了在社会昆虫群体领域观察到的成功，包括任务专门化和社会性。蚂蚁航天器作为独立的、自主的代理执行特定的功能，同时合作实现任务目标。例如，探矿蚂蚁飞行任务是2020-2025年时间范围内的一个长期飞行任务概念，涉及针对特定小行星勘探功能进行优化的各个航天器代理人。PAM的目标是在主带运行的每一年中至少描述1000颗小行星的特征。为了实现这一目标，PAM航天器无论是单独的还是作为一个集体，都必须实现高度的自主性。这种高度的自主性为人类和这些航天器之间的一种新的互动打开了可能性，人类探索者和开发人员可以通过交流高级目标和数据产品来与蚂蚁支持的资源进行互动。因此，蚂蚁使人类和机器人代理人共同工作实现任务目标的新型任务成为可能。在本文中，我们将在HEDS任务的背景下回顾和讨论ANTS体系结构。
The proposed Autonomous Nano-technology Swarm (ANTS) is an enabling architecture for human/robotic mission envisaged by NASA's mission for the Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS). ANTS design principles draw on successes observed in the realm of social insect colonies, which include task specialization and sociality. ANTS spacecraft act as independent, autonomous agents for specific functions, while cooperating to achieve mission goals. For example, the Prospecting ANTS Mission (PAM) is a long-term mission concept for the 2020-2025 time frame involving individual spacecraft agents that are optimized for specific asteroid prospecting functions. The objective of PAM is to characterize at least one thousand asteroids during each year of operations in the main belt. To achieve this objective, PAM spacecraft, individually and as a group, must achieve a high level of autonomy. This high degree of autonomy opens the possibility of a new kind of interaction between humans and these spacecraft, where human explorers and developers could interact with ANTS enabled resources by communicating high-level goals and data products. Thus ANTS enables new kinds of missions in which human and robotic agents work together to achieve mission goals. In this paper we review and discuss the ANTS architecture in the context of the HEDS mission.