Perhaps the scarcest resource for manned flight experiments - on Spacelab or on 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 (PI)-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. In addition to the functions of providing expert devise concerning scheduling and repair, the program should bring the astronaut into the scientific evaluation phase of an experiment by sharing with him the guidance and observations regarding the relevance and importance of data as it is being generated. Initial reaction from the astronaut community has been positive.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    PI-in-a-box: An expert system to advise astronauts during experiments


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1990-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    An expert system to advise astronauts during experiments

    Young, Laurence R. / Groleau, Nicolas / Szolovits, Peter et al. | NTRS | 1989


    Expert System to Advise Astronauts During Experiments: The Protocol Manager Module

    G. Haymann-haber / S. P. Colombano / N. Groleau et al. | NTIS | 1990


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

    Haymann-Haber, Guido / Colombano, Silvano P. / Groleau, Nicolas et al. | NTRS | 1990


    Astronauts

    NTRS | 1988


    Vehicle distance advise systems

    ACOSTA RODRIGUEZ ARMANDO / VASQUEZ HENAO NATHALI / ZEPEDA LOPEZ ERNESTO et al. | European Patent Office | 2019

    Free access