title: Automation in manned spaceflight.
abstract: With the ever increasing complexity and use of advanced technologies in the development of equipment and experiments in spaceflight, the possibility offers itself to automating repetitious or very sensitive operations.  The implementation of such automation lends itself well to teleoperations and the eventual introduction of artificial intelligence.  In this paper the criteria for introducing automation are discussed, and its impacts examined.  New problems such as command and control are discussed, with some guidelines suggested.
authors.affiliation: OHB-System, Space & Environmental Technology, Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Kass
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schafhauser
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001331:Automation; D006804:Ergonomics; D006801:Humans; D012371:Robotics; D013026:Space Flight; D018531:Spacecraft / Q000295:instrumentation; D014893:Weightlessness; D016526:Workload