The HURON task allocation and scheduling system: Planning human and robot activities for lunar missions

2008 World Automation Congress, WAC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Elfes, Alberto ^a   Weisbin, Charles R ^a   Hua, Hook ^a   Smith, Jeffrey H ^a   Mrozinski, Joseph ^a   Shelton, Kacie ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronaut robot teams; Lunar mission planning; Multi agent planning; Multi agent scheduling; Optimal space mission planning; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

ASTRONAUT-ROBOT TEAMS; MULTI-AGENT PLANNING; MULTI-AGENT SCHEDULING; OPTIMAL SPACE; ROBOT TEAMS;

MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NASA; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTS; SCHEDULING;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 77950853361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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