Autonomy Requirements Engineering for Space Missions
Authors: Vassev, Emil, Hinchey, Mike
Free Preview- Presents a unique approach to handling autonomy requirements
- Provides a unique perspective on how software engineers may efficiently build autonomous spacecraft capable of self-adaptation
- Addresses key issues in unmanned spacecraft engineering
- Delivers a comprehensive "state of the art" on software engineering for aerospace
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Advanced space exploration is performed by unmanned missions with integrated autonomy in both flight and ground systems. Risk and feasibility are major factors supporting the use of unmanned craft and the use of automation and robotic technologies where possible. Autonomy in space helps to increase the amount of science data returned from missions, perform new science, and reduce mission costs.
Elicitation and expression of autonomy requirements is one of the most significant challenges the autonomous spacecraft engineers need to overcome today. This book discusses the Autonomy Requirements Engineering (ARE) approach, intended to help software engineers properly elicit, express, verify, and validate autonomy requirements. Moreover, a comprehensive state-of-the-art of software engineering for aerospace is presented to outline the problems handled by ARE along with a proof-of-concept case study on the ESA's BepiColombo Mission demonstrating the ARE’s ability to handle autonomy requirements.
- Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Software Engineering for Aerospace: State of the Art
Pages 1-45
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Handling Autonomy Requirements for ESA Systems
Pages 47-103
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Autonomy Requirements Engineering
Pages 105-172
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Verification and Validation of Autonomy Requirements
Pages 173-184
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Summary and Future Work
Pages 185-187
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Autonomy Requirements Engineering for Space Missions
- Authors
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- Emil Vassev
- Mike Hinchey
- Series Title
- NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-09816-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-09816-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-09815-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-38403-0
- Series ISSN
- 1860-0131
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 250
- Number of Illustrations
- 38 b/w illustrations
- Topics