Project Title:

An Automatic Scheduling Assistant for the NASA Space Station

05.05-4917
An Automatic Scheduling Assistant for the NASA Space Station
Innovative Research, Inc.
6735 East Sixth Avenue
Denver
CO
80220
Mohsen
Pazirandeh
(303-321-4917)
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Abstract:

Since the initial phases of automation for the proposed NASA Space Station will be
centered around teleoperated robots, the crew will play an integral part and will
have to schedule activities subject to the constraints of material and labor resources.
The subject of this project is an automatic scheduling assistant based on a hierarchy
of activities in which the activities of high criticality are scheduled prior to
those of lower criticality. Furthermore, each criticality level is considered to
be a potentially different class of scheduling problem with an associated set of
scheduling rules. To assess the feasibility of this approach, Phase I will attempt
to show that there exist goal-directed approaches for selecting a criticality hierarchy
for scheduling Space Station activities and for classifying scheduling problems at
each level and that there is a corresponding set of scheduling rules for each class.

Potential Commercial Application:

Potential Commercial Applications:  The automatic scheduling assistant could schedule
activities aboard Space Station so that experiments and manufacturing processes will
be conducted with minimum cost.