Spatial Planning for International Space Station Crew Operations
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An important aspect of mission planning for NASA’s operation of the International Space Station is the allocation and management of space for supplies and equipment. The Stowage, Configuration Analysis, and Operations Planning teams collaborate to perform the bulk of that planning. A peer-to-peer automated planning architecture is proposed to support the three teams in a way that maps naturally to the current organizational structure. Additionally, a Geometric Reasoning Engine is developed to support spatial planning for each of the teams. An initial implementation of the proposed solution has been tested on scenarios taken from actual operations of the International Space Station.
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