World Automation Congress
Wailea, Hawaii, June 2000

Mini-Symposium: "Autonomy in Aerospace"

Track on "Planning, Scheduling, and Control in Aerospace"
Track Chair: Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Architectures for Planning, Scheduling, and Control

• Heuristic Management of Execution-Time Task Interactions
  Michael Freed, NASA Ames Research Center
  
  
• The MDS autonomous control architecture
  Erann Gat , Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  
  
• Better, Faster, and Cheaper Missions through Automated Planning and Scheduling
  Elaine R. Hansen, Colette Wilklow, Shankini Doraisingam, Jack Faber, Joe Antell
  Colorado Space Grant College, University of Colorado at Boulder
  
  

Aerospace Applications

• Worldwide Aeronautical Route Planner: Optimal fuel usage flight Planning
  Charles, B. McVey, David, P. Clements, Barton, C. Massey, Andrew, J. Parkes and Brian Drabble,
  Computational Intelligence Research Laboratory, University of Oregon
  
  
• Agile Aircraft Manufacturing and Assembly
  Brian Drabble, Charles, B. McVey, and David P. Clements,
  Computational Intelligence Research Laboratory, University of Oregon
  
  
• Continuous, Mixed-Initiative Management of Airlift Assets for the USAF Air Mobility Command
  Steve Smith, Robotics Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University
  
  
• Monitor and Control of Deep Space Communications through AI Planning
  F. Fisher, R. Knight, B. Engelhardt, S. Chien, N. Alejandre, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  
  

Space Planning and Scheduling

• Automatically Utilizing Science Opportunities With Continuous Plan Improvements
  Gregg Rabideau, Barbara Engelhardt, Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  
  
• Automated Planning for Spacecraft and Mission Design
  Ben Smith, Barbara Engelhardt , Russell Knight, Darren Mutz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  
  
• Fast Production and Flexible Maintainance of Schedule for Space Applications
  Amedeo Cesta, Angelo Oddi, Angelo Susi, IP-CNR, Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy
  
  
• A Study of Air Force Satellite Access Scheduling
  Adele Howe , L. Darrell Whitley, Laura Barbulescu, Jean-Paul Watson, Colorado State University
  
  

Mini-Symposium: Autonomy in Aerospace
Track on Cooperating Rovers for Space Applications

Track Chair: Edward Tunstel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Held in conjunction with the Track on Planning, Scheduling, and Control for Aerospace, chaired by Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Session I

• Requirements Assessment and Operational Demands for a Resource Mapping Rover Mission to the Lunar Polar Regions
  Paul Klarer, Roger Lenard, Alex Maish and Alan Binder
  Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center, Sandia National Laboratories
  
  
• Three Coordinated Planning Methods for Cooperating Rovers
  Steve Chien, Anthony Barrett, Tara Estlin, Gregg Rabideau
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  
  
• A Dynamic, Distributed Planning System for Coordinating Multiple Rovers
  Tara Estlin, Gregg Rabideau , Darren Mutz, and Steve Chien
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  
  
• Opportunistic Adaptation in Space-Based Robot Colonies: Application to Site Preparation
  Lynne E. Parker and David Jung
  Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Terry Huntsberger and Paolo Pirjanian
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  
  

Session II

• Fault Tolerant Rovers
  Gaurav S. Sukhatme
  Dept. of Computer Science, University of Southern California
  
  
• Application of Cooperative Robots to Search for Water on Mars Using Distributed Spectroscopy
  Gary T. Anderson, Ed Wilson, Murray Clark and Ray Hashemi
  University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Harding University, and Arkansas Tech University
  
  
• Remote Surface Exploration with Multiple Soft Computing Based Cooperative Rovers
  Marco A. A. de Oliveira, Edward Tunstel, Sigal Berman, and Mo Jamshidi
  NASA Center for Autonomous Control Engineering at University of New Mexico and
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  
  
• Prospecting for Lunar Ice Using a Multi-Rover Cooperative Team
  Paul Klarer, John Feddema, and Chris Lewis
  Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center, Sandia National Laboratories