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Assessment Study<br />

Report: CDF-20(A)<br />

February 2004<br />

page 202 of 422<br />

set of capabilities for the command & control, the data handling and the human interfaces. Given<br />

what is already available for guidance and control for military systems (like combat helicopters)<br />

or commercial airliners, it is clear that more and more controls shall be managed in complete onboard<br />

automation.<br />

In everyday life, human beings prone to accept an involvement of automated machine<br />

intelligence in many potentially life-endangering tasks. Robotic surgery and automated driving<br />

are examples. A 3-5 year mission of a spacecraft far more complex than the actual ISS with no<br />

practical escape solution for the crew requires the acceptance of a system where the on-board<br />

computer (even if not identifiable anymore with a single box) has full control of the spacecraft<br />

health management and is the real mission control entity.<br />

The on-board control system will also exploit capabilities like the on-board calculation of<br />

trajectories and manoeuvres, contingency management, FDIR, and all those autonomies<br />

requested by the long signal turnaround.<br />

This approach will also save a great amount of workload for the crew (and for the ground<br />

control), during the mission and in the (presumably long) training phase.<br />

Crewmembers shall be interfaced with the avionics by means of systems like PDAs or wrist<br />

computers and even the concept of a centralized command deck shall disappear. Human machine<br />

interfaces shall be weightless, the availability of powerful processors allows speech recognition<br />

and the use of touch screens is becoming common even in airliner cockpits.<br />

The use of Personal Satellite Robot Assistants was already spotted (1998) as very useful on<br />

shuttle and ISS but its development by NASA-AMES is now suspended [RD35].<br />

3.3.6.1.8 Reliable path-independent long distance multi-hop data transfer protocol<br />

A key aspect of Martian exploration will be the ability of future missions to interoperate.<br />

Figure 3-56: Interoperability scenario for a Mars mission.

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