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Autori principali: Rommel, Quentin, Hibbard, Michael, Shukla, Pavan, Save, Himanshu, Bettadpur, Srinivas, Topcu, Ufuk
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11631
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author Rommel, Quentin
Hibbard, Michael
Shukla, Pavan
Save, Himanshu
Bettadpur, Srinivas
Topcu, Ufuk
author_facet Rommel, Quentin
Hibbard, Michael
Shukla, Pavan
Save, Himanshu
Bettadpur, Srinivas
Topcu, Ufuk
contents Spacecraft must operate under environmental and actuator uncertainties while meeting strict safety requirements. Traditional approaches rely on scenario-based heuristics that fail to account for stochastic influences, leading to suboptimal or unsafe plans. We propose a finite-horizon, chance-constrained Markov decision process for mission planning, where states represent mission and vehicle parameters, actions correspond to operational adjustments, and temporal logic specifications encode operational reach-avoid constraints. We synthesize policies that optimize mission objectives while ensuring constraints are met with high probability. Applied to the GRACE-FO mission, the approach accounts for stochastic solar activity and uncertain thrust performance, yielding maneuver schedules that maximize scientific return and provably satisfy safety requirements. We demonstrate how Markov decision processes can be applied to space missions, enabling autonomous operation with formal guarantees.
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spellingShingle Verifiable Mission Planning For Space Operations
Rommel, Quentin
Hibbard, Michael
Shukla, Pavan
Save, Himanshu
Bettadpur, Srinivas
Topcu, Ufuk
Systems and Control
Spacecraft must operate under environmental and actuator uncertainties while meeting strict safety requirements. Traditional approaches rely on scenario-based heuristics that fail to account for stochastic influences, leading to suboptimal or unsafe plans. We propose a finite-horizon, chance-constrained Markov decision process for mission planning, where states represent mission and vehicle parameters, actions correspond to operational adjustments, and temporal logic specifications encode operational reach-avoid constraints. We synthesize policies that optimize mission objectives while ensuring constraints are met with high probability. Applied to the GRACE-FO mission, the approach accounts for stochastic solar activity and uncertain thrust performance, yielding maneuver schedules that maximize scientific return and provably satisfy safety requirements. We demonstrate how Markov decision processes can be applied to space missions, enabling autonomous operation with formal guarantees.
title Verifiable Mission Planning For Space Operations
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11631