A formal specification of fault-tolerance in prospecting asteroid mission with Reactive Autonomie Systems Framework

Abstract

The NASA's Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm (ANTS) is a generic mission architecture consisting of miniaturized, autonomous, self-similar, reconfigurable, and addressable components forming structures. The Prospecting Asteroid Mission (PAM) is one of ANTS applications for survey of large dynamic populations. In this paper, we propose a formal approach based on Category Theory to specify the fault-tolerance property in PAM by Reactive Autonomie Systems Framework.