Empirical requirements analysis for Mars surface operations using

• Main Authors: William J. Clancey, Pascal Lee, Maarten Sierhuis
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Arctic; Devon Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.547.8943; http://www.aaai.org/Papers/FLAIRS/2001/FLAIRS01-005.pdf

Contact: bclancey @ mail.arc.nasa, gov Living and working on Mars will require model-based computer systems for maintaining and controlling complex life support, communication, transportation, and power systems. This technology must work properly on the first three-year mission, augmenting human autonomy, without adding yet more complexity to be diagnosed and repaired. One design method is to work with scientists in analog (Mars-like) settings to understand how they prefer to work, what constraints will be imposed by the Mars environment, and how to ameliorate difficulties. We describe how we are using empirical requirements analysis to prototype model-based tools at a research station in the High Canadian Arctic. During the past three field seasons, 1998-2000, NASA/Ames researchers have investigated the field practices of scientists and engineers at Haughton Crater on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic, 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle, as participants in the NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP). The HMP is a Mars analog field research program based at SETI and Ames, with thrusts in