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Scheduling scientific experiments on the Rosetta/Philae mission
G.SIMONIN, C.ARTIGUES, E.HEBRARD, P.LOPEZ
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Manifestation avec acte : International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP) 2012 du 08 octobre au 12 octobre 2012, Québec (Canada), 2012, 15p. , N° 12344
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Abstract
The Rosetta/Philae mission was launched in 2004 by the European Space Agency (ESA). It is scheduled to reach the comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko in 2014 after traveling more than six billion kilometers. The Philae module will then be separated from the orbiter (Rosetta) to attempt the first ever landing on the surface of a comet. If it succeeds, it will engage a sequence of scientific exploratory experiments on the comet. In this paper we describe a constraint programming model for scheduling the different experiments of the mission. A feasible plan must satisfy a number of constraints induced by energetic resources, precedence relations on activities, or incompatibility between instruments. Moreover, a very important aspect is related to the transfer (to the orbiter then to Earth) of all the data produced by the instruments. The capacity of inboard memories and the limitation of transfers within visibility windows between lander and orbiter, make the transfer policy implemented on the lander's CPU prone to data loss. We introduce a global constraint to handle data transfers. The goal of this constraint is to ensure that data-producing activities are scheduled in such a way that no data is lost. Thanks to this constraint and to the filtering rules we propose, mission control engineers are now able to compute feasible plans in a few seconds for scenarios where minutes or even hours were previously often required. Moreover, in many cases, data transfers are now much more accurately simulated, thus increasing the reliability of the plans.
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G.SIMONIN, C.ARTIGUES, E.HEBRARD, P.LOPEZ
MOGISA
Manifestation sans acte : Congrès Annuel de la Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision (ROADEF 2012), Angers (France), 11-13 Avril 2012, 2p. , N° 12173
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