Abstract:

This paper builds upon a series of life support control experiments conducted at NASA Johnson Space Center and at Vanderbilt University. The experiments used two distinct, layered control architectures: (i) a model-based approach, and (ii) a procedural approach to control com-plex, distributed systems. Both sets of experiments pro-duced good results, but they also brought out the strengths and weaknesses of the two in the context of requirements for long duration human missions. Our goal in this paper is to come up with the design require-ments for an integrated architecture for autonomous controller design that combines the best of the two ap-proaches. This paper provides a framework for inte-grated design and discusses the advantages it offers.

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