Remote Agent: To Boldly Go Where No AI System Has Gone Before

Renewed motives for space exploration have inspired NASA to work toward the goal of establishing a virtual presence in space, through heterogeneous eets of robotic explorers. Information technology, and Arti cial Intelligence in particular, will play a central role in this endeavor by endowing these explorers with a form of computational intelligence that we call remote agents. In this paper we describe the Remote Agent, a speci c autonomous agent architecture based on the principles of model-based programming, on-board deduction and search, and goal-directed closed-loop commanding, that takes a signi cant step toward enablingthis future. This architecture addresses the unique characteristics of the spacecraft domain that require highly reliable autonomous operations over long periods of time with tight deadlines, resource constraints, and concurrent activity among tightly coupled subsystems. The Remote Agent integrates constraint-based temporal planning and scheduling, robust multi-t...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1998
• Where: AI
• Authors: Nicola Muscettola, P. Pandurang Nayak, Barney Pell, Brian C. Williams
• Keywords: AI 1998, Arti Cial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Goal-directed Closed-loop Commanding, Remote Agent