On the energy consequences of information for spacecraft systems

Conventional wisdom in the spacecraft domain is that on-orbit computation is expensive, and thus, information is traditionally funneled to the ground as directly as possible. The explosion of information due to larger sensors, the advancements of Moore's law, and other considerations lead us to...

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Published inIEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments conference digest (Online) pp. 104 - 109
Main Authors Lyke, James, Mee, Jesse, Edwards, Arthur, Pineda, Andrew, DeBenedictis, Erik, Frank, Michael
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2017
Subjects
adiabatic circuitry
Algorithm design and analysis
Bitcoin
Energy efficiency
energy minimization
Entropy
Hardware
Landauer limit
low-power microelectronics
Space vehicles
thermodynamic energy bound
Thermodynamics
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Summary:Conventional wisdom in the spacecraft domain is that on-orbit computation is expensive, and thus, information is traditionally funneled to the ground as directly as possible. The explosion of information due to larger sensors, the advancements of Moore's law, and other considerations lead us to revisit this practice. In this article, we consider the trade-off between computation, storage, and transmission, viewed as an energy minimization problem.
ISSN:2380-7636
DOI:10.1109/WiSEE.2017.8124901