Multirobot Lunar Excavation and ISRU Using Artificial-Neural-Tissue Controllers
In: AIP Conference Proceedings, 2008
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Automation of site preparation and resource utilization on the Moon with teams of autonomous robots holds considerable promise for establishing a lunar base. Such multirobot autonomous systems would require limited human support infrastructure, complement necessary manned operations and reduce overall mission risk. We present an Artificial Neural Tissue (ANT) architecture as a control system for autonomous multirobot excavation tasks. An ANT approach requires much less human supervision and pre‐programmed human expertise than previous techniques. Only a single global fitness function and a set of allowable basis behaviors need be specified. An evolutionary (Darwinian) selection process is used to ‘breed’ controllers for the task at hand in simulation and the fittest controllers are transferred onto hardware for further validation and testing. ANT facilitates ‘machine creativity’, with the emergence of novel functionality through a process of self‐organized task decomposition of mission goals. ANT based co...
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Multirobot Lunar Excavation and ISRU Using Artificial-Neural-Tissue Controllers
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Thangavelautham, Jekanthan ; Smith, Alexander ; Nader Abu El Samid ; Ho, Alexander ; Boucher, Dale ; Richard, Jim ; D'Eleuterio, Gabriele M. T. ; El-Genk, Mohamed S. |
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Zeitschrift: | AIP Conference Proceedings, 2008 |
Veröffentlichung: | AIP, 2008 |
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ISSN: | 0094-243X (print) |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.2844972 |
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