Operations Simulation Framework to Evaluate Vehicle Designs for Planetary Surface Exploration

Underwood, Jennifer E.; Baldesarra, Mark

doi:10.2514/6.2007-6254

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“…They also use surrogates (approximation surfaces) to reduce the cost of optimization [183]. Underwood and Baldesarra [184] describe MUSE -their software for modeling planetary exploration for design purposes. They emphasize on human-in-the-loop to make certain high-level design decisions and use an iterative procedure for fleet design.…”

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The Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicle Persistent Surveillance Problem: A Review

Nigam

2014

Machines

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Control of autonomous vehicles for applications such as surveillance, search, and exploration has been a topic of great interest over the past two decades. In particular, there has been a rising interest in control of multiple vehicles for reasons such as increase in system reliability, robustness, and efficiency, with a possible reduction in cost. The exploration problem is NP hard even for a single vehicle/agent, and the use of multiple vehicles brings forth a whole new suite of problems associated with communication and cooperation between vehicles. The persistent surveillance problem differs from exploration since it involves continuous/repeated coverage of the target space, minimizing time between re-visits. The use of aerial vehicles demands consideration of vehicle dynamic and endurance constraints as well. Another aspect of the problem that has been investigated to a lesser extent is the design of the vehicles for particular missions. The intent of this paper is to thoroughly review the persistent surveillance problem, with particular focus on multiple Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs), and present some of our own work in this area. We investigate the different aspects of the problem and slightly digress into techniques that have been applied to exploration and coverage, but a comprehensive survey of all the work in multiple vehicle control for search, exploration, and coverage is beyond the scope of this paper.

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The Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicle Persistent Surveillance Problem: A Review

Nigam

2014

Machines

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“…Each subsystem module is coded and run iteratively until the system converges to a specific design. Then the Mission Utility Simulation Environment (MUSE [13]) analyzes the vehicles' dynamic capabilities by taking the resulting design parameters of lunar vehicles as inputs. MUSE is a simulation tool that takes the vehicle design parameters as an input and evaluates the performance of the design on certain terrain on the planetary surface.…”

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Design of Power Systems for Extensible Surface Mobility Systems on the Moon and Mars

Hong

Hoffman

2008

AIAA SPACE 2008 Conference &Amp; Exposition

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This thesis presents the power system model description and sample studies for extensible surface mobility systems on the Moon and Mars. The mathematical model of power systems for planetary vehicles was developed in order to estimate power system configuration with given mission parameters and vehicle specifications. The state-of-art power source technologies for space application were used for constructing the model; batteries, fuel cells, and photovoltaic systems were considered in this thesis. The Sequential Quadratic Programming method was used to find the optimal power system configurations based on the concept of a previous MIT study. Several case studies on the Moon and Mars were carried out to show the usefulness of the model and to recommend power system configurations for 7-day off-base exploration missions on the Moon and Mars. For the lunar mission, photovoltaic and fuel cell hybrid power systems were suggested. In addition, vehicles with photovoltaic/fuel cell hybrid systems could be operated without recharging when they were driving in shadowed regions. For the Mars mission, both fuel cell single power systems and photovoltaic/fuel cell hybrid systems were acceptable for short missions of only a few days. However, if long, sustainable missions were considered, photovoltaic/fuel cell hybrid systems were required.

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Control and Design of Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicles for a Persistent Surveillance Task

Kroo

Nigam

2008

12th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference

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Operations Simulation Framework to Evaluate Vehicle Designs for Planetary Surface Exploration

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The Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicle Persistent Surveillance Problem: A Review

The Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicle Persistent Surveillance Problem: A Review

Design of Power Systems for Extensible Surface Mobility Systems on the Moon and Mars

Control and Design of Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicles for a Persistent Surveillance Task

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