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An expert system to advise astronauts during experiments : The protocol manager module

Author
Rosenthal, Don
Published
Mar 1, 1990.
Physical Description
1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Groleau, Nicolas, Young, Laurence R., Haymann-Haber, Guido, Colombano, Silvano P., and Szolovits, Peter
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Summary
Perhaps the scarcest resource for manned flight experiments - on Spacelab or on the Space Station Freedom - will continue to be crew time. To maximize the efficiency of the crew and to make use of their abilities to work as scientist collaborators as well as equipment operators, normally requires more training in a wide variety of disciplines than is practical. The successful application of on-board expert systems, as envisioned by the Principal Investigator in a Box program, should alleviate the training bottleneck and provide the astronaut with the guidance and coaching needed to permit him or her to operate an experiment according to the desires and knowledge of the PI, despite changes in conditions. The Protocol Manager module of the system is discussed. The Protocol Manager receives experiment data that has been summarized and categorized by the other modules. The Protocol Manager acts on the data in real-time, by employing expert system techniques. Its recommendations are based on heuristics provided by the Principal Investigator in charge of the experiment. This prototype was developed on a Macintosh II by employing CLIPS, a forward-chaining rule-based system, and HyperCard as an object-oriented user interface builder.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 19900016206.
Accession ID: 90N25522.
NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Third Annaul Workshop on Space Operations Automation and Robotics (SOAR 1989); p 187-194.
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