Increasing crew autonomy for long duration exploration missions: Self-scheduling

Márquez, Jessica J.; Hillenius, Steven; Kanefsky, Bob; Zheng, Jiang; Deliz, Ivonne; Reagan, M.

doi:10.1109/aero.2017.7943838

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“…Although there was a lack of assets expected during an actual mission, such as rovers, drones, or a physiological load, and consumables modeling of astronauts, the BASALT field activities were supported by the Minerva software suite (Marquez et al, 2019), optimizing a traverse planning, timeline generation and display (via the PLAYBOOK software, Marquez et al, 2017), procedure management, execution monitoring, data archiving, and visualization (Deans et al, 2017) and included a set of codified flight rules, safety rules, and troubleshooting routines.…”

Section: Research Gaps In Tactical Decision Making: Applications Of Lessons Learned Managing Multiple Field Assets During Analog Missionsmentioning

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Planetary Analog Field Operations as a Learning Tool

Groemer

Ozdemir

2020

Front. Astron. Space Sci.

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Mars and Moon analog field missions are established tools to investigate the potential of instruments, workflows, materials, and human factors for characterizing the astrobiological potential and geoscientific context of planetary surfaces. Historically, there is a broad spectrum on both the scientific focus and the performance parameters for analog missions. This applies specifically where performance parameters of coordinated deployment of mission assets (e.g., rovers, human crewmembers, or scientific instruments) are studied. We argue that scientific priorities and workflows shall be consolidated at an early planning stage of deep space missions such as during phase-0 or phase-A studies, while they can still impact the mission architecture design process. It is to be expected that a human-robotic mission to Mars or the Moon will include multiple field assets such as human explorers, robotic vehicles including aerial reconnaissance, mobility assets, habitat modules, stationary instruments, and engineering elements for power, communication, and in-situ resource utilization. These require more complex asset coordination compared to single-rover planetary missions. Therefore, we advocate an "Exploration Cascade," which helps to manage these multiple assets to optimize the scientific return of planetary surface missions, to search for extinct and/or extant traces of life, and to characterize the geoscientific context of the sites of interest.

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Section: Research Gaps In Tactical Decision Making: Applications Of Lessons Learned Managing Multiple Field Assets During Analog Missionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planetary Analog Field Operations as a Learning Tool

Groemer

Ozdemir

2020

Front. Astron. Space Sci.

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“…Minerva is composed of three software tools that support one or more of the key work functions required for planning and executing science-driven planetary EVAs (Table 2): xGDS, Playbook, and SEXTANT (Deans et al, 2017). xGDS and Playbook have been deployed in a variety of analog field tests such as Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS), NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO), and Pavilion Lake Research Program (PLRP) (Lim at al., 2011; Deans et al, 2013; Heldmann et al, 2015; Marquez et al, 2017). Through these field tests, our team focused on developing effective user experiences for each software tool.…”

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Future Needs for Science-Driven Geospatial and Temporal Extravehicular Activity Planning and Execution

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Future human missions to Mars are expected to emphasize scientific exploration. While recent Mars rover missions have addressed a wide range of science objectives, human extravehicular activities (EVAs), including the Apollo missions, have had limited experience with science operations. Current EVAs are carefully choreographed and guided continuously from Earth with negligible delay in communications between crew and flight controllers. Future crews on Mars will be expected to achieve their science objectives while operating and coordinating with a science team back on Earth under communication latency and bandwidth restrictions. The BASALT (Biologic Analog Science Associated with Lava Terrains) research program conducted Mars analog science on Earth to understand the concept of operations and capabilities needed to support these new kinds of EVAs. A suite of software tools (Minerva) was used for planning and executing all BASALT EVAs, supporting text communication across communication latency, and managing the collection of operational and scientific EVA data. This paper describes the support capabilities provided by Minerva to cope with various geospatial and temporal constraints to support the planning and execution phases of the EVAs performed during the BASALT research program. The results of this work provide insights on software needs for future science-driven planetary EVAs.

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“…New features were developed based on observations and field-tests in Earth analogs, such as NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) and Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA). We also identified more specific features to facilitate self-scheduling (Marquez et al, 2017). These features include:…”

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Designing for Astronaut-Centric Planning and Scheduling Aids

Márquez

Hillenius

Zheng

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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We have investigated and evaluated a novel concept of operations for human spaceflight: allowing astronauts to manage and schedule their own timeline. In order to evaluate this self-scheduling concept of operations, we have designed, implemented, and field-tested astronaut-centric planning and scheduling aid. Our mobile based software aid, Playbook, has been used in a variety of Earth analogs as well as onboard the International Space Station. We will demonstrate the unique Playbook features that we have developed based on research findings during field testing that facilitate planning and scheduling in extreme environments.

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Increasing crew autonomy for long duration exploration missions: Self-scheduling

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

Planetary Analog Field Operations as a Learning Tool

Planetary Analog Field Operations as a Learning Tool

Future Needs for Science-Driven Geospatial and Temporal Extravehicular Activity Planning and Execution

Designing for Astronaut-Centric Planning and Scheduling Aids

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