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Scheduling scientific experiments for comet exploration

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The Rosetta/Philae mission was launched in 2004 by the European Space Agency (ESA). It is scheduled to reach the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November 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 tasks, and in-compatibility between instruments. Moreover, a very important aspect is related to the transfer (to the orbiter then to the 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 CPU prone to data loss. We introduce a global con-straint to handle data transfers. The purpose of this constraint is to ensure that data-producing tasks are scheduled in such a way that no data is lost. Thanks to this constraint and to the filtering rules we propose, mission control is now able to compute feasible plans in a few seconds for scenarios where minutes 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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hal-01108961 , version 1 (23-01-2015)

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Gilles Simonin, Christian Artigues, Emmanuel Hébrard, Pierre Lopez. Scheduling scientific experiments for comet exploration. Constraints, 2015, 20 (1), pp.77 - 99. ⟨10.1007/s10601-014-9169-3⟩. ⟨hal-01108961⟩
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