Intelligent, Electronic Procedures
TRACLabs Inc. has been developing procedure assistance support software for over a decade. TRACLabs Inc. personnel invented the Procedure Representation Language (PRL), which is an XML schema that allows the content of a procedure to be captured for possible automated execution. TRACLabs Inc. personnel have also worked on the Procedure Integrated Development Environment (PRIDE), a procedure authoring tool being developed by NASA’s Automation for Operations (A4O) program to make developing PRL easier for flight controllers.

Procedure Representation Language (PRL)

PRL is an XML schema developed by TRACLabs Inc. that defines a variety of tags that can be used to describe a procedure. At the highest level is a procedure tag that marks the beginning of a new procedure. Each procedure consists of steps that describe smaller tasks within the procedure. Steps themselves have blocks that are containers for instructions that provide explicit detail about commanding a system. Each of these components can have automation data that controls their execution status.







Key Publications:

David Kortenkamp, R. Peter Bonasso and Debra Schreckenghost, A Procedure Representation Language for Human Spaceflight Operations, in The 9th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS-08)

Debra Schreckenghost, R. Peter Bonasso, David Kortenkamp, Scott Bell, Tod Milam and Carroll Thronesbery, Adjustable Autonomy with NASA Procedures,in The 9th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS-08)

David Kortenkamp, R. Peter Bonasso and Debra Schreckenghost, Developing and Executing Goal-Based, Adjustably Autonomous Procedures, in AIAA InfoTech@Aerospace Conference 2007


 
 

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