基于Multi-Agent的编队飞行卫星体系结构研究

Research on Architecture for Formation Flying Satellites Based on Multi-Agent

卫星编队的自主运行与管理能够节约大量成本,并能充分发挥卫星编队的整体功能,是编队飞行的关键技术之一。Multi-Agent系统的一些基本特性正好满足了卫星编队自主性的需求,因此从Agent概念出发,分析了将Agent技术应用于卫星编队的优势,研究了基于Multi-Agent的卫星编队垂直分层体系结构,并详细描述了每个层中各子Agent的功能,最后给出了卫星编队的一般协同工作流程,并针对基于Multi-Agent编队飞行系统,提出了几项需要解决的关键技术。

A key technology for satellites flying in formation is autonomous running and governing, which will reduce the cost significantly and make full use of the whole function of the formation. Some characteristics of the multi-agent system just satisfied the need of formation autonomy, so the vertical architecture and general coordination scheme of the formation were studied, and the detailed functions of each sub-agent were described. Several key technologies which needed to be solved for Multi-Agent formation flying system were proposed.