Deliberation For Intra-Vehicle Robotic Activities In Space

Intra-Vehicular Robotics (IVR) for space exploration vehicles describes robotic capabilities to perform Intra-vehicle activity (IVA) in an autonomous or remotely operated manner. This paper focuses on autonomy, and more specifically, on the potential application of deliberation functions in robotics to enabling autonomous IVR. We provide an overview of the capabilities required to enable goal-directed operations, robotic systems’ ability to autonomously transfer a high-level goal into a set of tasks to accomplish them.