NASA Tech Briefs Spotlights Chad Frost

+ 2010 Year In Review Article Highlights Ames Researchers + A4O Technology Tested at DRATS + Abhinav Saxena Awarded PHM Society’s Distinguished Service Award + Active Wing-Shaping Flight Control for Drag Reduction Cited in Aviation Week Magazine + Adaptive Control Flight Tests on NASA F-18 Aircraft + Adrian Agogino And Vytas Sunspiral Win NASA Innovative Advanced Concept Award + Advanced Planning Technology Knowledge Engineering Tools Presentations + AIAA Publishes Control Allocation Paper + Air Force Research Laboratory Visitors + Airspace Control Paper Accepted for AIAA ATIO Conference + Ames Hosts Aircraft Working Group Meeting + Ames Mission Network Deployed for LADEE and IRIS Missions + Ames Research Center Joins Space Operations Committee-at-Large + AMISS Certified and Deployed in JSC Mission Control + Ashok Srivastava Edits Advances In Machine Learning And Data Mining For Astronomy + Ashok Srivastava Selected as AIAA Journal Editor in Chief + Ashok Srivistava Receives University of Colorado at Boulder’s 2012 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award + Autonomous Mission Operations Baseline Tests Completed + Autonomous Mission Operations Project Featured in JSC Roundup Magazine + Autonomous Systems and Avionics Project Receives NASA Space Act Award + Aviation Week & Space Technology Highlights Elastic-Shaped Future Air Vehicle Work + Balaban Gives Stanford Prognostic Health Management Research Talk + Bill Clancey Gives Invited Lecture at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club + Bill Clancey Lectures at Two Malaysian Institutions + Bill Clancey Presents Keynote Lecture at Robotic Mining Workshop in South Africa + Bill Clancey Reviews Cognitive Complexity And Error Research Program + Bill Clancey Selected as APS Fellow + CAS Projects Featured at International Conference on Collaboration + Code TI Hosts Marie Curie Fellow + Completing the Drill Hill GPR Survey + Computer Science Review Publishes Kristin Y. Rozier’s Linear Temporal Logic Symbolic Model Checking Paper + Constraint and Flight Rule Management 1.0 Delivered to JSC MOD + Convective Weather Forecast Accuracy Paper Accepted for DASC Conference + Crew Decision Systems Group Demonstrates Integrated System On Desert Rats’ Deep Space Habitat + DASH Researchers Attend and Speak at Spacecraft Fault Management Workshop + Dimitra Giannakopoulou Gives Invited Talks at Schools in Palo Alto, Italy, and Greece + Division Aeronautics Researchers Win 2011 ARMD Associate Administrator Awards + Dr. Ann Patterson-Hine Edits System Health Management Book + Dr. David Smith Gives Invited Talk at First Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems + Dr. David Smith Invited Talk at International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling For Space + Dr. Giannakopoulou Co-Chairs 18th International Symposium on Formal Methods + Dr. Giannakopoulou Speaks at 17th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial-Critical Systems + Dr. Jeremy Frank Gives Invited Talk at NASA Quantum Future Technologies Conference + Dr. Rozier Gives Invited Lectures at University Of Miami + Dr. Rozier Participates in Career Fair at Santa Clara University + Dr. Srivistava Elected AIAA Associate Fellow + Dr. Vadim Smelyanskiy Receives Two NASA Tech Brief Awards + Drill Hill Mapping + Education Outreach Students Win National Awards + Education Outreach Students Win National Awards + Elements of Mission Control Technologies Software Employed at JPL for the Mars Science Lab Mission + ELP Team Wins NASA Group Achievement Award + Enjoying Math: Learning Problem Solving with KenKen Puzzles published by Deepak Kulkarni + EXCEDE Proposal Funded for Technology Development + Failure Consequence Assessment System Team Hosts Technical Interchange Meeting + First Flight of Flyable Electro-Mechanical Actuator + First Release Of ADCO Planning Exchange Tool Delivered To JSC + First Smartphone Certified to Fly on ISS + General Electric Begins Work on Cloud Computing for Air Traffic Management + Gigapan Voyage Remotely Captures First Underwater Panorama + Ground Support Systems Prognostics Technology Demonstrated to KSC + Gundy-Burlet Wins 2011 NASA Exceptional Engineering Medal + Habitat Automation Software Successfully Demonstrated During JSC Deep Space Habitat Mission Operations Test + Hasso Plattner Institute Workshop Visits Ames + Human Exploration Telerobotics Project Conducts Communications Test Between ISS and Ames Marscape + Human Exploration Telerobotics Project Demonstrates Remote Operation of “Smart Spheres” on Space Station + IEEE Awards Ashok Srivastava and Irving Statler for Data Mining Case Study + IEEE Posts Human Exploration Telerobotics Overview Video on Blog + IKOS Meets Aviation Safety APG Milestone + IMS Aircraft Health Monitoring Case Study Presented to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics + Integrated Software Health Management NRA Report Completed + Intelligent Robotics Group Performs Smartphone Test Onboard ISS + Intelligent Robotics Group Provides Key Science Operations Software for In-Situ Resource Utilization Field Test + Intelligent Robotics Group Releases High-Resolution Lunar Maps Generated by New Computer Vision Algorithms + Intelligent Robotics Group Supports Desert RATS 2010 + Intelligent Systems Division Helps Make NASA Quantum Future Technologies Conference a Success + Intelligent Systems Division Personnel and Colleagues Participate in First Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems + Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) Passes Engineering Readiness Test 2 + IRG Deploys K10 Robots as Part of Haughton-Mars Project + IRG “Crater Detection” Challenge for NASA Tournament Lab + IRIS Ground Data System 2.0 Released + IRIS Passes Mission Operations Review + Jeremy Frank Gives Invited Presentation at Space Ops 2011 + Jeremy Frank Gives Speaks at University of Miami Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering + Jose Celaya Galvan Receives Ames Safety Award + K10 Black assembled and the rest of the field team arrives + K10 Black return to Drill Hill + K10 Black Shakedown Test + K10 Red completes checkout + K10 Red Shakedown Test + K10 Red simulates dark crater descent + Kalmanje S. Krishnakumar wins NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal + Lester Barrows Wins 2011 Forensics Challenge + Live Coverage and Experiments with JSC Remote Ops + Lunar Analog Science Traverses Experimenting with “Smart Phone” Apps + Machine Learning in Systems Health Management Book Released + MCT Completes Integration With JSC Mission Control’s Uncertified Operations + MCT Team Receives JSC Director’s Innovation Award + Mike Shafto And Dave Korsmeyer Co-Author “Contributions To Information Technology: A View From Ames Research Center” + Mike Shafto Contributes to Special Section of IEEE Intelligent Systems + Mission Control Technologies (MCT) Utilized by JSC’s Morpheus Lander Project + Mission Control Technologies Certified for ISS Operations + Mission Control Technologies Goes Open Source + Mission Control Technologies Installed In JSC Mission Control’s Uncertified Operations Area + MIT Press to Publish Book about Scientists’ Experience Using the Mars Exploration Rovers + MSLICE Planning and Scheduling Software Keeps Curiosity on Track + NASA Headquarters Open House Talk on Inauguration Day Features Autonomous Missions Operations Project + NASA Teaches Kindergartners How to be Mars Robots + NASA Tech Briefs Spotlights Chad Frost + NASA, JPL, and Private Industry Brainstorm Next Generation Software Architectures for Mission Control + NASA/Boeing Meeting on Elastic Aircraft Flight Control Research + NASA’s Leading Edge TV Program Features Ames Data Miners + NEX Proposal Selected for CMAC Award + Nhan Nguyen Chairs AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference + NSF Selects Kristin Y. Rozier’s Life-Critical System Verification “Nugget” as NSF Poster Set + OCAMS 4 Deployed in JSC Mission Control—Automated Uplink and Downlink of ISS Files + OCAMS 4.3 Deployed In JSC Mission Control + OCAMS Release 4 Completes User Acceptance Testing + OCAMS Release 4.1 Deployed in JSC Mission Control + OCAMS Release 4.2 Deployed in JSC Mission Control + OCAMS Release 4.4 Deployed in JSC Mission Control + OCAMS Team Receives Award from Space Station Crew and Flight Directors + ODVEC Monitoring System Certified and Deployed in JSC Mission Control Center + PHM and Principles of Diagnostics Conferences + Pilot Tests for Emergency Landing Planner + Planetary Data Systems 4 Tools Released to Planetary Sciences Community + PLATO Team Receives NASA Honor Award + Power Planning and Analysis Tool Certified for JSC Mission Control Ops + Preliminary Technology Shakedown For Cestol Aircraft Controls Research + Presentation to Leadamerica High School Students About Mars Exploration Rovers + Prognostic Algorithm Performance Demonstrated on Electric UAV Batteries Onboard the Edge 540 Platform + Prognostics Center of Excellence Groups Win Best Paper Awards at 2011 Prognostics And Health Management Society Conference + Prognostics Center of Excellence Wins Best Paper Awards + Programming Challenges Created for NASA Tournament Lab + Release of NASA Earth Exchange Dashlink 2.0 Collaborative Websites + Remote Ops at NASA Ames + Robust Software Engineering Members Help Organize Ames Formal Aspects of Component Software Symposium + RSE Researchers Lecture at Menlo College International Summer School on Formal Techniques + RSE Researchers Team With NASA Colleagues to Host Fourth Formal Methods Symposium + RSE Researchers Team with NASA Colleagues to Host Third Formal Methods Symposium + RSE Researchers Team with NASA Colleagues to Host Third Formal Methods Symposium + Solar Array Constraint Engine Passes Critical Design Review + STAR Presented to NASA Software of the Year Panel + STAR Selected as Ames Representative for NASA’s Software of the Year Competition + STAR v0.9.1 Release + Stephen Jacklin Co-Authors Next-Generation Avionics Roadmap v2 + Successful Completion of ARRA “Health Management Technologies Research & Development” Task + Successful Test of SPHERES With Smartphone Controller Onboard the ISS + Team arrives on Devon Island + Technical Overview of Optimal Rotorcraft Trajectories Work Presented to Langley’s Aeroacoustics Branch + Training on Modeling the Space Launch System Using Teams Designer at MSFC + Tri-ATHLETE Footfall Planning Demonstrated at Desert RATS + Two rovers conduct kilometer long surveys + Two rovers, two locations + U.S. Adaptive Control Patent Awarded to NASA Scientists + V&V Paper Wins Best Paper Award at Safecomp ’10 + V. Stepanyan and K. Krisnakumar Publish Chapter in “Advances in Intelligent and Autonomous Aerospace Systems” + Vehicle Systems Safety Technologies Project Hosts Technical Interchange Meeting + Verification and Validation Holds Meeting of Experts + Weather-Impacted Sector Occupancy Paper Presented at GNC Conference + XSearch Development Concludes With Release of Mission Operations Meeting Minutes Search