WORKSHOP: Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications (IJCAI 07)
The Advanced Concepts Team, along with the Artificial Intelligence Group of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Texas at El Paso, organized the workshop "Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications" at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Hyderabad, India on the 8th January 2007.
Background
Many would claim that the ambitious short and long term goals set down by the various national space agencies such as ESA, NASA and JAXA cannot be achieved unless highly autonomous spacecraft can be designed. This has led, in recent years, to an increasing interest of the entire aerospace community in artificial intelligence. However, in the current state-of-the-art, several open issues and show-stoppers can be identified, the major problem probably being system reliability. We are surely far from the desired situation in which artificial intelligence methods for space applications can be considered as an off-the-shelf tool for space engineers.
The workshop was intended to stimulate the discussion between the artificial intelligence and the space engineering communities and benefit both.
Organising Committee
- Daniela Girimonte, European Space Agency (main contact)
- Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso
- Dario Izzo, European Space Agency
- Tamás Vinkó, European Space Agency