Automating Task Network (TN) Generation with Goal Dictionaries, Year 1

Completed TRL 3 (started at 2, targeting 3)

Description

Leverage verifiable, expressive languages to represent goals and create a set of task templates to compose a Goal Dictionary that will be used to automatically generate the task networks.

Benefits

Generation of task networks, one approach to instantiating goals for onboard autonomy, is currently manual, tedious, and thus overwhelming and error-prone.

Details

Technology area	Autonomous Systems > Reasoning and Acting Technologies
Program	Center Innovation Fund: JPL CIF (JPL CIF)
Lead organization	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Start date	2020-10-01
End date	2021-09-30

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Tiago Stegun Vaquero — tiago.stegun.vaquero@jpl.nasa.gov

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