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Autonomy Architecture for a Raven-Class Telescope with Space Situational Awareness Applications

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Coder, Ryan D.
Holzinger, Marcus J.
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Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics was established in 1931, with a name change in 1962 to the School of Aerospace Engineering
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This paper investigates possible autonomy architecture designs of a Raven-class telescope as applied to the tracking and high level characterization problem in Space Situational Awareness (SSA). Various levels of autonomy are defined and existing systems and capabilities are discussed. Telescope interactions with distributed sensor networks such as the Space Surveillance Network (SSN) are reviewed, and several relationships between autonomy and scheduling of telescopes are addressed. An autonomy architecture design for a Raven-class telescope is presented and future extensions are proposed.
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2013-02
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