A Goal-oriented Autonomous Controller for Space Exploration

The Autonomous Controller is an on-going activity at ESA ESTEC. The Goal-Oriented Autonomous Controller (GOAC) that will eventually result as an outcome of this activity is envisaged in the frame of future ESA missions wherein on-board autonomy is important. The GOAC is an autonomous controller using a sense-planact paradigm to provide increasing levels of autonomy for robotic task achievement. GOAC will generate plans in situ, deterministically dispatch activities for execution, and recover from off-nominal conditions.

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