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Autonomous Systems and Robotics
Overview The Exploration Vision calls for closer cooperation between humans and robots than ever before. Creating robust robotic assistants, as well as making key spacecraft systems self sufficient, requires building ...
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Collaborative & Assistant Systems
Overview As NASA missions become longer and more scientifically complex, so will the ongoing participation of and cooperation between individuals in many different locations. At the same time, human/machine interactions ...
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Discovery and Systems Health
Overview The Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH) technical area focuses on challenges in understanding engineering and science data. The engineering data understanding work is centered around the emerging systems engineering ...
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Robust Software Engineering
Overview We are the Robust Software Engineering technical area, based in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California. Our goal is to dramatically increase ...
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Highlights

Bill Clancey Gives Invited Lecture at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club
Bill Clancey, Chief Scientist for Human-Centered Computing at Code TI, presented an invited lecture titled “Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers,” at The Commonwealth Club of San ...
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Lester Barrows Wins 2011 Forensics Challenge
This year’s National Cyber Security Awareness Forensic Challenge competition simulated a phishing attack and infection similar to those commonly found throughout the IT world and observed at Ames. Code TI’s ...
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Intelligent Systems Division Helps Make NASA Quantum Future Technologies Conference a Success
A joint Code TI/D/TN team recently organized and hosted the first-ever Quantum Future Technologies Conference hosted here at Ames. The conference included over forty speakers from academia, government, and industry ...
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Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) Passes Engineering Readiness Test 2
The Ground Data System (GDS) for the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission passed its second Engineering Readiness Test (ERT2). ERT2 is a significant demonstration of the GDS capability. This ...
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IEEE Posts Human Exploration Telerobotics Overview Video on Blog
IEEE has posted a piece entitled, “Robots Aboard the International Space Station” on their blog on automation. The story features the Human Exploration Telerobotics overview video put together by Ames ...
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Active Wing-Shaping Flight Control for Drag Reduction Cited in Aviation Week Magazine
Active wing-shaping flight control technology for next-generation aircraft, currently being developed by the Intelligent Systems Division in collaboration with The Boeing Company in St. Louis, MO, and Seal Beach, CA, ...
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OCAMS Release 4.2 Deployed in JSC Mission Control
Orbital Communications Adapter Management System (OCAMS) release 4.2 was successfully deployed for International Space Station (ISS) operations at Johnson Space Center (JSC) on January 24, 2012. This version of OCAMS ...
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Dr. Jeremy Frank Gives Invited Talk at NASA Quantum Future Technologies Conference
Dr. Jeremy Frank gave an invited talk at the NASA Quantum Future Technologies Conference, which took place at NASA Ames Research Center, January 17-21, 2012. Dr. Frank’s presentation was titled, ...
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Bill Clancey Presents Keynote Lecture at Robotic Mining Workshop in South Africa
Bill Clancey (Chief Scientist, Human-Centered Computing, Code TI) presented an invited keynote lecture, “Model-based automation methods relevant to robotic mining,” at the AngloGold Ashanti Innovation Technology Consortium Workshop held in ...
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First Release Of ADCO Planning Exchange Tool Delivered To JSC
The first delivery of the International Space Station (ISS) Attitude Determination and Control Officer (ADCO) Planning Exchange (APEX) Tool was made in December 2011. This first release of seven includes ...
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IRIS Passes Mission Operations Review
The Mission Operations System (MOS) and Ground Data Systems (GDS) team for the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission passed their Mission Operations Review (MOR). The MOR is a major ...
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Machine Learning in Systems Health Management Book Released
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery for Engineering Systems Health Management, edited by Ashok N. Srivastava and Jiawei Han, presents state-of-the-art tools and techniques for automatically detecting, diagnosing, and predicting the ...
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Failure Consequence Assessment System Team Hosts Technical Interchange Meeting
The Failure Consequence Assessment System (FCAS) hosted a two-day Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) at Ames Research Center (ARC) on December 6-7. Gordon Aaseng, an ARC employee stationed at Johnson Space ...
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Training on Modeling the Space Launch System Using Teams Designer at MSFC
Intelligent Systems Division researchers conducted three days of training for members of Extra-Vehicular (EV) Activity 43 at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) on modeling the Space Launch System (SLS) using ...
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Dr. Ann Patterson-Hine Edits System Health Management Book
A new book titled System Health Management: with Aerospace Applications has been edited by Dr. Ann Patterson-Hine and Dr. Stephen Johnson (MSFC and Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Mr. ...
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Intelligent Robotics Group Releases High-Resolution Lunar Maps Generated by New Computer Vision Algorithms
The Intelligent Robotics Group has released new high-resolution maps of the lunar surface that were created from over 4,000 images taken by the Apollo Metric (Mapping) Camera, which flew aboard ...
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IMS Aircraft Health Monitoring Case Study Presented to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
A case study of the Inductive Monitoring System (IMS) application to C130 aircraft engine starter system health monitoring was presented to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Marietta, GA. This study was ...
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Autonomous Mission Operations Project Featured in JSC Roundup Magazine
The Autonomous Mission Operations (AMO) project, under the Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) program, was the subject of a story in the November issue of Johnson Space Center’s Roundup magazine. When ...
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OCAMS Release 4.1 Deployed in JSC Mission Control
Orbital Communications Adapter Management System (OCAMS) release 4.1 was successfully deployed for International Space Station (ISS) operations at Johnson Space Center (JSC) October 24, 2011. OCAMS 4.1 further enhances the ...
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Successful Test of SPHERES With Smartphone Controller Onboard the ISS
On November 1, 2011 a successful test was conducted onboard the International Space Station (ISS) of the new Smartphone Controller for the “Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage, and Reorient Experimental Satellites” ...
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