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Space station short-term mission planning using ontology modelling and time iteration

Huijiao Bu, Jin Zhang *, and Yazhong Luo   

  1. College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  • Online:2016-04-25 Published:2010-01-03

Abstract:

 This paper studies the problem of the space station short-term mission planning, which aims to allocate the exe cuting time of missions effectively, schedule the corresponding resources reasonably and arrange the time of the as tronauts properly. A domain model is developed by using the ontology theory to describe the concepts, constraints and relations of the planning domain formally, abstractly and normatively. A method based on time iteration is adopted to solve the short-term planning problem. Meanwhile, the resolving strategies are proposed to resolve different kinds of conflicts induced by the constraints of power, heat, resource, astronaut and relationship. The proposed approach is evaluated in a test case with fifteen missions, thirteen resources and three astronauts. The results show that the developed domain ontology model is reasonable, and the time iteration method using the proposed resolving strategies can successfully obtain the plan satisfying all considered constraints.