With growing interest for human space tourism in the twenty-first century, much attention has been directed to the robust engineering of Environmental Control and Life Support Systems in space habitats. The stable, reliable operation of such a habitat is partly achieved with an ability to recognize and predict faults. For these two purposes, a reinforcement learning adversarial agent (ReLAA) is utilized in this work. A ReLAA is trained with experimental data to actively recognize and predict faults. These capabilities are achieved by proposing actions that activate known faults in a system. Instead of issuing these harmful actions to the actual hardware, a digital twin of the mock space habitat is simulated to discover vulnerabilities that would lead to faulted operation. The methods developed in this work will allow for the discovery of damaging latent behavior, and the reduction of false positive and negative fault identification.
With growing interest for human space travel in the 21st century, much attention has been directed to the robust engineering of life sustainment systems in deep space habitats. The stable, reliable operation of such a habitat is partly achieved with an ability to recognize and predict faults. For these two purposes, a reinforcement learning adversarial agent (ReLAA) that is trained with experimental data to actively recognize and predict faults is introduced in this work. ReLAA proposes activating known faults in a system then simulates a digital twin of the mock space habitat to discover vulnerabilities which would lead to faulted operation. The methods developed in this work will allow for the discovery of damaging latent behavior, and the reduction of false positive and negative fault identification.
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