Goal Oriented Behaviour of Robots for Space Applications

Abstract

Within future space activities autonomous robots will have a broad field of applications. As an example they will be used for the exchange of defect ORU’s (Orbit Replaceable Units) of satellites. In order to solve those tasks, plans must automatically be generated and executeded by using the methods of artificial intelligence. The planning and performance system KOMPLEX as described hereafter demonstrates the possibility to use a normal industrial robot as an autonomous system. This means, that the total robot movement will not be explicitely described, but will be generated by the planning system according to a goal setting generating an action plan and the execution system turns this plan into a sequence, which can be taken by the normal robot control unit.