System and method for automated mission planning for a space robotics system or other remotely operated device system

A method of automated task planning in a remotely operated device system, the method executed by one or more processors, the method comprising:

• storing, in a data storage device accessible by the one or more processors:
• a domain model for modeling a domain of the remotely operated device system;
• a task library including a plurality of subgoals each mapped to a corresponding subtask or set of subtasks that achieves the subgoal, the task library being filterable by subgoal;
• receiving, through a human-machine interface, a user input including:
• at least one goal;
• initial conditions;
• automatically decomposing, by a task planner module executed by the one or more processors, the at least one goal into subgoals;
• querying, with the task planner module, the task library for matching subtasks using the subgoals;
• generating, by the task planner module, a sequence of actions using the initial conditions, the domain model, and the matching subtasks returned by the task library;
• returning, by the task planner module, the sequence of actions as a task to the human-machine interface, the task performed by a remotely operated device of the remotely operated device system;
• and
• displaying the task in the human-machine interface.