Task Scheduling for Cooperative Human/Robotic Space Operations

2008-01-1985

06/29/2008

Event
International Conference On Environmental Systems
Authors Abstract
Content
Future space missions will involve humans and robots cooperatively performing operational tasks in various team combinations. Part of the required preparation for such missions includes understanding the issues involved in task allocation between disparate agents, and efficiently ordering tasks within the mission constraints. The scheduling tool developed in this research distributes pre-allocated task primitives between a cooperative human crew and dexterous robotic team. It combines real-world precedent constraints with algorithms from scheduling theory to reorder and tighten each crew member's individual schedule. The schedules minimize astronaut involvement time by stacking astronaut-performed tasks together in the schedule. This also minimizes astronaut workload in the completion of each task. Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3A was used as an example to test the allocation and scheduling tool.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-1985
Pages
12
Citation
Singer, S., and Akin, D., "Task Scheduling for Cooperative Human/Robotic Space Operations," SAE Technical Paper 2008-01-1985, 2008, https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-1985.
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Publisher
Published
Jun 29, 2008
Product Code
2008-01-1985
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English