Title:
Development of an Autonomous Distributed
Fault Management Architecture for the
VISORS Mission
Development of an Autonomous Distributed
Fault Management Architecture for the
VISORS Mission
| dc.contributor.advisor | Lightsey, E. Glenn | |
| dc.contributor.author | Paletta, Antoine | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. Space Systems Design Lab | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-16T18:48:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-16T18:48:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-05-01 | |
| dc.description | AE 8900 MS Special Problems Report | |
| dc.description.abstract | CubeSat formations have been identified as a new paradigm for addressing important science questions, but are often early adopters of new technologies which carry additional risks. When these missions involve proximity operations, novel fault management architectures are needed to handle these risks. Building on established methods, this paper presents one such architecture that involves a passively safe relative orbit design, interchangeable chief-deputy roles, a formation level fault diagnosis scheme, and an autonomous multi-agent fault handling approach. This architecture focuses on detecting faults occurring on any member of a spacecraft formation in real time and performing autonomous decision making to resolve them and keep the formation safe from an inter satellite collision. The NSF-sponsored Virtual Super-resolution Optics with Reconfigurable Swarms (VISORS) mission, which consists of two 6U CubeSats flying in formation 40 meters apart as a distributed telescope to study the solar corona, is used as a case study for the application of this architecture. The underlying fault analysis, formulation of key elements of the fault detection and response strategy, and the implementation as flight software for VISORS are discussed in the paper. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1853/73543 | |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| dc.rights | Unless otherwise noted, all materials are protected under U.S. Copyright Law and all rights are reserved | |
| dc.rights.metadata | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | |
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| dc.title | Development of an Autonomous Distributed Fault Management Architecture for the VISORS Mission | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Masters Project | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.advisor | Lightsey, E. Glenn | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Space Systems Design Laboratory (SSDL) | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Master's Projects | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering | |
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