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Embedding Procedure Assistance into Mission Control Tools
Title: Principal Investigator
Phone: (281) 461-7884
Email: korten@traclabs.com
Title: President
Phone: (832) 415-4407
Email: janderson@traclabs.com
Procedures are the accepted means of commanding spacecraft. Procedures
encode the operational knowledge of a system as derived from system
experts, testing, training and experience. NASA has tens of thousands
of procedures for Space Shuttle and the International Space Station,
which are used daily by both flight controllers and crew. It is
expected that the new Constellation vehicles, including Orion, Altair
and Lunar habitats, will have thousands of procedures to ensure safe
operation. Currently procedures are executed manually using standard
command and control displays. We are proposing a new paradigm whereby
procedures interact closely with the next generation telemetry and
command displays being developed for NASA and with a procedure
assistant that can automatically dispatch commands and evaluate
telemetry under tight supervision of the operator. The procedure
assistant will consist of an interactive procedure display, a
procedure assistant executive, a set of procedure support services and
an editor for modifying existing procedures or building simple new
procedures. In our paradigm rocedures will be just like any other
component of an integrated suite of mission control tools. This will
greatly enhance the efficiency of flight controllers and reduce
training costs associated with having a separate set of tools for
procedures.
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