An Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) for operating training of ROCSAT TT&Cgroung station

ROCSAT-1 is the first small satellite developed by the Republic of China an d is a low-earth orbit experimental satellite. The goal of ROCSAT-1 is to c arry out scientific research missions. To successfully accomplish ROCSAT mi ssions, the ROCSAT Mission Operations Team (RMOT) is formed to handle the d aily operation and maintenance activities. These activities are onerous and complex. Hence, RMOT is concerned with future personnel training. In this paper, we propose an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) which is capable of integrating the training courses into a software program. ITS uses a great amount of information to present a subject for a user to l earn. In the process of teaching, an ITS is capable of presenting the cours e materials in a structured format to the user and to judge if the user has mastered the subject or not. ITS is the tool to integrate the RMOT trainin g courses and to develop a multi-function computer-assisted instruction (CA I) system. It can not only provide a practical method for users recurrently , but also make self-teaching easily. (C) 2000 International Astronautical Federation. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.