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Stall Recovery Guidance Experiment To Run in The Ames Vertical Motion Simulator
Though rare, stall-related accidents and incidents still occur in commercial aircraft. To address this concern, the Stall Recovery Guidance experiment is investigating the degree to which candidate guidance algorithms and ...
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Matthew Daigle Gives Talk To International Forum For Aviatian Research Technical Interchange
Matthew Daigle presented the talk, “Real-time Safety Monitoring and Prediction in the National Airspace”, on March 22, 2017, to the International Forum for Aviation Research (IFAR) Technical Interchange. The talk ...
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Real-Time Safety Monitoring of National Airspace Demonstrated To FAA Research, Engineering, and Development Advisory Committe
Real-Time Safety Monitoring (RTSM) and prediction of the National Airspace System (NAS) was demonstrated to the Research, Engineering, and Development Advisory Committee (REDAC) Human Factors subcommittee on March 28th, 2017. ...
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Code TI Engineer Participates in First Annual Indigenous STEM Robotics Competition
Code TI Research Engineer, George Gorospe, volunteered to participate at the first annual Indigenous Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Robotics Competition on March 25th, 2017, on the Gila River ...
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Data Sciences Group Presents Work at Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium in Doha, Qatar
Bryan Matthews gave an invited talk at the fourth annual Machine Learning and Data Analytics (MLDAS) Symposium on March 14th, 2017, in Doha, Qatar. The talk was entitled, “Applications of ...
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Intelligent Systems Division Researchers Volunteer at Synopsys Santa Clara Valley Science and Engineering Fair
Nhan Nguyen, Chetan Kulkarni, and Marcus Johnson served on the judging team for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems (IS) Award for the Synopsys Santa Clara ...
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Code TI Contributes to Successful Deployment of TechEdSat5 From International Space Station and Completion of Initial Ops
The TechEdSat5 (TES5) was successfully deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) Kubo module using the NanoRacks deployer on Monday March 6, 2017 at 10:20 am PST. Code TI contributes ...
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NASA and Rigetti Computing Sign Space Act Agreement For Collaboration on Prototype Quantum Computing Hardware
NASA and Rigetti Computing signed a Space Act Agreement to collaborate on initial experiments on their prototype gate-model quantum computing hardware. BACKGROUND: Previously, the only quantum hardware available was special-purpose ...
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Data Sciences Group Supported VESGEN Software Highlighted in Upcoming TechBytes Article
The Ames Center Innovation Fund (CIF) project, “Critical 2D-to-3D Transformation of NASA's VESGEN Software for Astronaut Health Countermeasures and Terrestrial Medicine/Ecological Commercialization,” was selected to be highlighted in an article ...
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Eleanor Rieffel Gives Invited Talk at Frontiers in Quantum Coherent Science Event
Eleanor Rieffel gave an invited talk at Frontiers in Quantum Coherent Science: An Inaugural Celebration of the Center for Quantum Coherent Science at UC Berkeley. Her talk, “A NASA Perspective ...
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Real-Time Safety Monitoring of National Airspace To Be Demonstrated To The National Research Council
Real-time safety monitoring and prediction of the National Airspace System (NAS) will be demonstrated to the National Research Council (NRC) on January 23rd. The Real-Time Safety Monitoring (RTSM) proof-of-concept prototype ...
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Generic Software For Prognostics Released Open Source
The Generic Software Architecture for Prognostics (GSAP), developed by members of the Diagnostics and Prognostics group, has been released under a NASA Open Source Agreement. GSAP can be found on ...
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Dr. Susan Frost Selected as American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Member Spotlight For November, 2016
Dr. Susan Frost is the featured member for the November American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Member Spotlight (see: AIAA Momentum Member Spotlight – November 2016). The monthly "Member ...
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Codes T and TI Contribute To Recently Released Artificial Intelligence Reports
Two federal Artificial Intelligence (AI) reports were released in October and announced on the White House Blog . The documents were co-authored by Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH) Data Sciences ...
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Matthew Daigle Gives Invited Lecture at University of Maryland, College Park
Matthew Daigle delivered an invited lecture on “Model-Based Prognostics” at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, as part of UMD’s graduate course “Prognostics and Health Management”. Matt’s lecture focused ...
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Real-Time Safety Monitoring of National Airspace Demonstrated To NASA Advisory Council Aeronautics Committee
Real-time safety monitoring and prediction of the National Airspace System (NAS) will be demonstrated to the Aeronautics Committee of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) on November 15. In the proof-of-concept ...
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Advanced Caution and Warning System Supports Orion Entry and Landing Simulation
The Advanced Caution and Warning System (ACAWS) was featured in the first integrated entry, descent, and landing simulation of the first crewed Orion mission conducted on November 3, 2016. The ...
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Advanced Caution & Warning System Demonstrated To NASA Administrator
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Deputy Administrator Dava Newman, and Johnson Space Center (JSC) Director Ellen Ochoa visited the Astronaut Office’s Rapid Prototyping Lab (RPL) at JSC to observe the Orion ...
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QuAIL Team is The First to Successfully Train a Quantum Computer to Generate Handwritten Digits
The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QuAIL) team has successfully trained a quantum computer to generate (low-resolution) handwritten digits. The QuAIL team trained the D-Wave 2X quantum computer hosted at NASA ...
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Eric Barszcz Presents BatchEditor to NASA 'TEAMS' User Group
Eric Barszcz gave a presentation on the BatchEditor, a tool he developed for automatically updating Testability, Engineering, and Maintenance System (TEAMS) reasoner models to the NASA TEAMS User Group (NTUG) ...
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Diagnostics and Prognostics Group Release Open Source Prognostics Toolboxes
Research software entitled “Prognostics Model Library” and “Prognostics Algorithm Library”, by Matthew Daigle, have been released under a NASA Open Source Agreement. Releases can be found on the NASA Github ...
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Stefan Schuet Presents Invited Talk at the Airline Operations Workshop
Stefan Schuet presented an invited talk on "Emerging Technologies for Airplane State Awareness and Prediction" to industry and government representatives at the Airline Operations Workshop, August 2-5, here at Ames. ...
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George Gorospe and Interns Featured in NASA and Industry News
In June 2016, George Gorospe and two Diagnostics and Prognostics group interns, Shrikant Pandya and Victor Hernandez, were featured in the NASA Ames Office of Education quarterly newsletter. In an ...
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Technology Insertion Projects Group Members Present Work at Space Launch System Technical Interchange Meeting
Technology Insertion Projects Group members Peter Berg, Chris Neukom, and Ann Patterson-Hine presented work at the Space Launch System (SLS) Mission and Fault Management (FM) Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) at ...
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George Gorospe Organizes Second TI Intern Showcase Event
George Gorospe is the organizer for the second TI Summer Intern Showcase Event, to be held on August 11. The Intelligent Systems Division is hosting a summer open house to ...
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Edward Balaban Participates in Antarctic Expedition Organized By The 2041 Foundation To Test NASA Technologies
In March 2016, Edward Balaban took part in an Antarctic expedition organized by the 2041 Foundation to initiate testing of NASA-developed technologies in Antarctic conditions. Technologies tested during the expedition ...
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Indranil Roychoudhury Gives Invited Talk at Palo Alto Research Center
Indranil Roychoudhury delivered an invited talk on “Real-Time Safety Monitoring and Prediction for the National Airspace System” at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in Palo Alto, California, on May ...
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Cornell University's Masters of Professional Studies Program Uses TI-Developed "ACCEPT" Software
Dr. Rodney Martin’s Open-Source Adverse Condition and Critical Event Prediction Toolbox (ACCEPT) was used for Cornell University’s Masters of Professional Studies (MPS) program. A spring semester project, sponsored by the ...
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Ongoing Flight Tests Successfully Demonstrating Virtual Testbed Infrastructure
Researchers from Ames Research Center and Langley Research Center conducted successful flight tests over the past month that demonstrated key aspects of a virtual testbed infrastructure. The infrastructure leverages and ...
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Hamed Valizadegan To Give Invited Talk at Machine Learning Innovation Summit
Hamed Valizadegan will give an invited talk entitled “Machine Learning for Space Research Problems” at the Machine Learning Innovation Summit in San Francisco on June 8th. The talk will present ...
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Nodes Small Satellites Deployed From ISS With Batteries Certified at The Prognostics Center of Exclellence's SHARP Lab
Two Nodes satellites were deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on May 16. The batteries on the satellites were certified for flight by Chetan Kulkarni from the Prognostics Center ...
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Matthew Daigle and Nikunj Oza Present SMART-NAS Real-Time Safety Modeling at NASA - FAA Safety Research Transition Team Meeting
Matthew Daigle and Nikunj Oza presented work on the Shadow-Mode Assessment using Realistic Technologies for the National Airspace System (SMART-NAS) Real-Time Safety Modeling (RTSM) project at the NASA - Federal ...
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2nd Generation Wireless Sensor Module Delivered to Wallops Flight Facility For SOAREX-9 Launch
The second-generation Wireless Sensor Module (WSM) hardware and software passed its flight qualification tests this past week at the Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) in Virginia. Two WSMs will be flown ...
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Discovery and Systems Health Staff Honored at The NASA Ames Technology Transfer Awards Ceremony
Several current and former members of the Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH) technical area of the Intelligent Systems Division were honored at the 2015 NASA Technology Transfer Awards Ceremony on ...
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ATCorp's "Novel, Multidisciplinary Global Optimization under Uncertainty" Phase 2 Proposal With Co-I Nikunj Oza Awarded Funding
ATCorp won a one-year phase 2 award from the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Leading Edge Aeronautics Research for NASA (LEARN) program for a project entitled, "Novel, Multidisciplinary Global ...
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Peter Robinson Serves on NESC Review Board For Orion GNC Fault Detection, Isolation, & Recovery System
Technology Insertion Projects Group member Peter Robinson attended the Orion Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) at Johnson Space Center (JSC) ...
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Nikunj Oza Gives Invited Talk at Kaiser Permanente's Machine Learning Day
Nikunj Oza, Leader of the Intelligent Systems Division Data Sciences Group, was invited to speak at Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland facility on November 6th as part of their “Machine Learning Day.” ...
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Media To Tour Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory For The First Time
Members of the media will tour the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames Research Center (ARC) for the first time on Tuesday, ...
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TI Researchers Receive SAE 2015 Prognostics & Health Management Conference Honorable Mention For Best Theoretical Paper
A paper on "Diagnostic Reasoning Using Prognostic Information for Unmanned Aerial Systems" has received the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Prognostics and Health Management Society’s 2015 Prognostics and Health Management ...
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Diagnostics and Prognostics Group Researchers Win 2015 Prognostics & Health Management Society Conference Best Poster Award
A joint paper/poster entitled, “Hardware Development for the Controlled Fault Injection in a Turbofan Engine Air-Bleed Valve," written by members of the Diagnostics and Prognostics Group and a researcher from ...
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Group Researchers Present Case Study in Prognostics and Health Management Short Course
Chris Teubert and Shankar Sankararaman will present two modules on October 23-24 at the two-day short course, “PHM Fundamentals and Case Studies – From Monitoring/Sensing to Fault Diagnosis/Failure Prognosis and ...
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NASA Quantum Computing Team is Building a New D-Wave Compiler
The NASA Quantum Computing Team has begun an effort to build a more effective program compiler for problems of interest to be run on the new D-Wave machine installed at ...
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Data Science For Climate Networks Proposal Awarded
"Scalable Analysis of Earth System Data Using Parallelized Graph-Based Approaches" is one of seven selected proposals from among twenty-three submissions to the Computational Modeling Algorithms and Cyberinfrastructure (CMAC) program under ...
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Susan Frost Organizes Summer Intern Showcase Panel
Susan Frost is the organizer for the first TI Summer Intern Showcase and Panel event, to be held on August 4. The Intelligent Systems Division is hosting a summer open ...
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Inductive Monitoring System Delivered to United Launch Alliance
The most recent version of Code TI’s Inductive Monitoring System (IMS) has been delivered to the United Launch Alliance (ULA) for analysis of launch systems operations data. The ARC Technology ...
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Wireless Sensor Network Test on SOAREX-8 Sounding Rocket is Successful
The Sub-Orbital Aerodynamic Re-entry EXperiments (SOAREX-8) payload containing the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) was successfully launched from Wallops Flight Facility on July 7, 2015 at 6:15 a.m. The 36.313 sounding ...
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Peter Berg Receives Spaceflight Awareness Award
Peter Berg’s contributions to human spaceflight will be recognized at the 2015 Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Honoree Event in conjunction with the RS-25 Engine Test in August. Peter Berg developed ...
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Rodney Martin Wins 2015 NASA T&I Data Challenge Award for Smart Building Software Infrastructure Development
A proof-of-concept project titled “IT Solution Deployment and Testing for Next Generation Zero-Net-Energy Intelligent Buildings” was one of 10 projects that won the 2015 NASA Technology & Innovation (T&I) Labs ...
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Ames Prognostic Hardware to be Included in the Third Phase of Armstrong’s Vehicle Integrated Propulsion Research Project
George Gorospe (Code TI, SGT Inc.) will travel to Armstrong Flight Research Center to operate Ames-developed prognostic hardware during the third phase of the Vehicle Integrated Propulsion Research (VIPR) project. ...
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Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Parallel Benchmarks Wins Supercomputing’s 2015 Test of Time Award
The Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Parallel Benchmarks, developed in the early 1990’s by the NAS Program (now NASA Advanced Supercomputing, Code TN), has won the Supercomputing 2015 (SC15) Test of ...
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Susan Frost Wins USGS Director’s Innovation Award for Sensor Development
Susan Frost has won a United States Geological Survey (USGS) Director’s Innovation Award to develop a bio-inspired optical sensor for earthquake fault monitoring and will serve as a Co-I on ...
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Media Spotlight On NASA International Students
NASA International Internship (NASA I2) students Jason Renwick and Stefan Hosein, fall 2014 interns in Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH), were featured on Trinidad and Tobago’s TV6 Morning Edition, where ...
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Wireless Sensor Network Hardware Passes Soarex-8 Flight Qualification Thermal Vacuum Test
The Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) hardware passed its first flight qualification test during Thermal VACuum (TVAC) testing in the Electronics Evaluation Lab at Ames Research Center. The WSN will be ...
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New Alternative Developed for Space Launch System Ignition Overpressure Suppression
A team led by Michael Khasin has developed an alternative for using water bags for suppression of the ignition overpressure wave for the Space Launch System (SLS). The water bags ...
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Susan Frost Serves as Technical Discipline Chair for AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference
Susan Frost served as the Technical Discipline Chair of the Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Science and Technology Forum (SciTech 2014) ...
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Rodney Martin Organizes Sustainability Base Collaborative Research Meeting
A collaborative research meeting of NASA, Carnegie Mellon University at Silicon Valley (CMU-SV), and UC Berkeley researchers, faculty, and students was held to share Sustainability Base research results and plan ...
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Dr. Kristin Yvonne Rozier Named AIAA Associate Fellow
According to the award citation, “AIAA Associate Fellows are individuals of distinction who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics. Each ...
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Susan Frost Receives 2013 NASA Ames Transfer Technology Award for Residual Mode Filters
Susan Frost received a 2013 Patent Application Award from the NASA Ames Technology Partnerships Office for her patent application for residual mode filters. This patent application is for a disturbance-accommodating ...
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Piloted Simulation Evaluation of Tactical Flight Management System with Onboard Maneuvering Envelope Estimation a Success
On July 28, 2014, a successful commercial piloted shakedown test of technologies to improve aircraft safety was conducted in the Advanced Concepts Flight Simulator at the Crew-Vehicle Systems Research Facility. ...
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Diagnostics And Prognostics Group Members Win 2014 Prognostics and Health Management Society Conference Best Paper Award
A paper titled “A Model-Based Prognostics Framework to Predict Fatigue Damage Evolution and Reliability in Composites,” by Juan Chiachio, Manuel Chiachio, Kai Goebel, Guillermo Rus, and Abhinav Saxena, was presented ...
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Edward Balaban and Juan J. Alonso Win 2013 PHM Society Conference Best Paper Award
A paper by Edward Balaban and Juan J. Alonso (Stanford University, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics) titled “A Modeling Framework for Prognostic Decision Making and its Application to UAV Mission ...
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Jose Celaya and Abhinav Saxena Conduct Electronics Prognostics Tutorial at European PHM Society Conference
A tutorial on “Prognostics for Electronics” was given at the European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society in Nantes, France. Technical tutorials on various topics in health ...
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Nikunj Oza Gives Invited Talk at Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposiumin Doha, Qatar
Nikunj Oza gave an invited talk at the Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (MLDAS) held in Doha, Qatar, on March 2-4, 2014. The Symposium was sponsored by Boeing and ...
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Diagnostics and Prognostics Group Members Help Test Lithium-Ion Battery for NODES Small Satellite Mission
The lithium-ion battery pack for the NODES (Network & Operation Demonstration Satellite) Technology Demonstration Mission was flight certified with the assistance of testing conducted in the Systems Health, Analytics, Resilience, ...
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NASA Centers Host NASA Formal Methods Symposium 2014
Dr. Kristin Y. Rozier (Ames Intelligent Systems Division) and Dr. Julia Badger (Johnson Space Center) served as Program Committee Chairs for the sixth annual NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM), held ...
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Rodney Martin Conducts Seminar with Faculty and PhD Students at Lund University in Sweden
On June 27, 2014, Rodney Martin conducted a seminar with faculty and PhD students in mathematical statistics, automatic control, applied mathematics (the image group), and numerical mathematics at Lund University ...
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DaSH Members Contribute Chapters to New Integrated Vehicle Health Management Book
Members of the Diagnostics and Prognostics group in the Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH) technical area contributed several chapters to the newly released book Integrated Vehicle Health Management: The Technology, ...
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Bryan Matthews and Kanishka Bhaduri Receive 2013 NASA Ames Technology Transfer Award
In January 2014, Bryan and Kanishka Bhaduri (formerly in the Discovery and Systems Health area, Data Sciences Group) received a 2013 NASA Ames Technology Transfer Award in recognition of their ...
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Matthew Daigle and Chetan Kulkarni Win 2014 IEEE Aerospace Conference Best Paper Award
A paper by Matthew Daigle (NASA Ames) and Chetan Kulkarni (SGT) titled “A Battery Health Monitoring Framework for Planetary Rovers,” was chosen as the 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics ...
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Rodney Martin Gives an Invited Talk Following the Opening Event of Green Tech Center in Vejle, Denmark
Rodney Martin delivered a talk on “The Prediction of Adverse Events in Time Series Data Using the Adverse Condition and Critical Event Prediction Toolbox (ACCEPT)” following the opening event and ...
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Automatic Anomaly Detection Knowledge Base Updates Demonstrated Using Live Orion EFT-1 Data Feed
A filtering scheme to construct and update the Orion battery subsystem of the Inductive Monitoring System (IMS) Knowledge Bases (KBs) was demonstrated during the Orion Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) ...
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Discovery and Systems Health Staff Honored at NASA Ames Technology Transfer Awards Ceremony
Several current and former members of the Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH) technical area (branch) of the Intelligent Systems Division were honored at the 2014 NASA Technology Transfer Awards Ceremony ...
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Matthew Daigle Gives Invited Talk at Palo Alto Research Center
Matthew Daigle delivered an invited talk on “Model-Based Prognostics” at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in Palo Alto, California. This area of prognostics is focused on the estimation of ...
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Kamalika Das Participatesin National Science Foundation’s Data Mining Proposal Review Panel
Kamalika Das was invited to be part of one of the panels organized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) to review ...
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Best Technical Paper at the 50th IEEE Autotest Conference
A paper by Chetan S. Kulkarni, George Gorospe (SGT), Matthew Daigle, and Kai Goebel (NASA Ames) titled “A Testbed for Implementing Prognostic Methodologies on Cryogenic Propellant Loading Systems” was chosen ...
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Cryosim Software Released on NASA Tech Briefs Website
CryoSim consists of a physics-based simulation model of a cryogenic fluid test bed, along with supporting code to provide control, presentation, and recording of the simulation output. A set of ...
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Biologically Inspired Machine Intelligence Proposal Selected for Award
A biologically inspired machine intelligence proposal submitted to the highly competitive 2014 Center Innovation Fund / Director’s Innovation Fund (CIF/DIF) was selected for award. The award will fund a team ...
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Advanced Caution and Warning System Android Tablet Application Demonstrated During Orion EFT-1 Flight
A prototype crew-oriented minimal Advanced Caution And Warning System (ACAWS) interface (Android application) was demonstrated to Orion Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) crew and flight controller representatives as a user-research ...
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Advanced Caution and Warning System Reasoner Advanced to Meet Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 Goals
The Integrated Systems Health Management (ISHM) Technology Insertion Projects Group extended the Advanced Caution & Warning System (ACAWS) reasoner to determine loss of redundancy to vehicle (sub)systems/components for concurrent multiple ...
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Dr. Kristin Y Rozier Gives Invited Lectures at the University of Miami
Dr. Kristin Y. Rozier gave two invited lectures for the graduate course on Software Design and Verification at the University of Miami. The course was newly designed this year by ...
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Integration of Automated Planning And Scheduling with Integrated Systems Health Management Successfully Demonstrated
The Habitat Automation (HA) team integrated three existing tools that were previously developed in Code TI: The Advanced Caution and Warning System (ACAWS), the Extensible Universal Remote Operations Planning Architecture ...
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Dr. Kristin Y. Rozier Wins AIAA Intelligent Systems Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award
Dr. Kristin Y. Rozier has been awarded a Distinguished Service Award by the Intelligent Systems Technical Committee (ISTC) of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) for “Significant contributions ...
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Physics Based Methods Group Successfully Demonstrates Chafing Fault-Detection Technology on C-17 Jet Engine
Electronic chafing fault-detection technology developed by members of the Physics Based Methods Group was successfully demonstrated on a cable connected to the Electronic Engine Controller (EEC) of a live C-17 ...
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NASA’s Springer Journal Publishes Ashok Srivistava and Johann Schumann’s Paper on Software Health Management
Ashok Srivastava and Johann Schumann’s “Software Health Management: A Necessity for Safety Critical Systems” was published by NASA’s Springer Journal’s Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering. The paper addresses the ...
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Dr. Rozier Gives an Invited Lecture on “Formal Methods and Other Awesome Applications in Engineering”
Dr. Kristin Y. Rozier gave an invited lecture on “Formal Methods and Other Awesome Applications in Engineering” for the Introduction to Engineering course at the University of Miami. The talk ...
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Dr. Rozier Participates in Career Fair at Santa Clara University
Dr. Kristin Y. Rozier completed training to become a NASA Technical Recruiter and served in this position at the Santa Clara University (SCU) 2013 Winter Engineering Career Fair on Wednesday, ...
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Dr. Srivistava Elected AIAA Associate Fellow
Dr. Ashok Srivastava has been elected to the grade of associate fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). AIAA Associate Fellows are individuals of distinction who have ...
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Dr. Rozier Gives Invited Lectures at University Of Miami
Dr. Kristin Y. Rozier gave an invited College of Engineering Colloquium at the University of Miami on “Formal Specification and Verification of a Coordination Protocol for an Automated Air Traffic ...
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Prognostics Center of Excellence Wins Best Paper Awards
Two papers written by Prognostics Center of Excellence researchers won best paper awards at the Annual Conference of the Prognostics & Health Management Society 2012, held at Minneapolis, MN, September ...
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Habitat Automation Software Successfully Demonstrated During JSC Deep Space Habitat Mission Operations Test
Throughout the two-week Mission Operations Test (MOT) in the Deep Space Habitat (DSH) at Johnson Space Center (JSC), September 10-21, software provided by the Autonomous Systems Project ran twenty four ...
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Jose Celaya Galvan Receives Ames Safety Award
Jose Celaya-Galvan was recognized by the Ames Safety Awards Program II (ASAP II) for his exemplary attention to health and safety conditions in the Intelligent Systems Division’s Advanced Diagnostics and ...
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ODVEC Monitoring System Certified and Deployed in JSC Mission Control Center
The Anomaly Monitoring Inductive Software System (AMISS) health-monitoring software running in the International Space Station Flight Control Room (ISS FCR) has been updated with an improved monitoring algorithm: the Outlier ...
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NEX Proposal Selected for CMAC Award
“Integrating Parallel and Distributed Data Mining Algorithms into the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)” was one of ten proposals selected from among fifty-four submissions to the Computational Modeling Algorithms and Cyberinfrastructure ...
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Ashok Srivastava Selected as AIAA Journal Editor in Chief
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has selected Ashok N. Srivastava, Ph.D., to replace Dr. Michael Hinchey as the Editor in Chief of its Journal of Aerospace Computing, ...
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Ashok Srivistava Receives University of Colorado at Boulder’s 2012 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award
Dr. Ashok N. Srivastava has been awarded the 2012 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the University of Colorado at Boulder. The University of Colorado at Boulder recognized five engineering alumni ...
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DASH Researchers Attend and Speak at Spacecraft Fault Management Workshop
Nine members from various groups in the Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH) research area attended the NASA Spacecraft Fault Management Workshop in New Orleans. Three of them gave talks to ...
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Ashok Srivastava Edits Advances In Machine Learning And Data Mining For Astronomy
Dr. Ashok N. Srivastava is an editor for the forthcoming book Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy, published April 4, 2012 by Chapman & Hall. This book ...
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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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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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Prognostics Center of Excellence Groups Win Best Paper Awards at 2011 Prognostics And Health Management Society Conference
Two Prognostics Center of Excellence groups won awards for their papers at the annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, 2011, held in Montreal, Canada, from September 25th ...
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Prognostic Algorithm Performance Demonstrated on Electric UAV Batteries Onboard the Edge 540 Platform
Prognostic health management algorithms designed by the Prognostics Center of Excellence, and implemented on a PC104 embedded hardware system developed by teams at Langley Research Center (LaRC) and Dryden Flight ...
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AMISS Certified and Deployed in JSC Mission Control
A graphical development environment for the Anomaly Monitoring Inductive Software System (AMISS), a health-monitoring software system based on the Intelligent System Division’s Inductive Monitoring System (IMS), has been installed and ...
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Successful Completion of ARRA “Health Management Technologies Research & Development” Task
Researchers in the Diagnostics & Prognostics Group and Intelligent Data Understanding Group in the Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH) area successfully completed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) task ...
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Balaban Gives Stanford Prognostic Health Management Research Talk
Edward Balaban, a researcher with the Diagnostics & Prognostics Group of the Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH) research area, was invited to give a talk to the Space Environment and ...
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IEEE Awards Ashok Srivastava and Irving Statler for Data Mining Case Study
The IEEE International Conference of Data Mining (ICDM) recognized Dr. Ashok N. Srivastava and Dr. Irving Statler for one of the top ten data mining case studies. Their case study ...
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Ground Support Systems Prognostics Technology Demonstrated to KSC
Prognostics technology was recently demonstrated to Space Shuttle operations team members and Ground Operations launch control system representatives at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Focusing on a pneumatic valve in the ...
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First Flight of Flyable Electro-Mechanical Actuator
On August 5th, 2010, a team consisting of members of NASA Ames Diagnostic & Prognostic Group and U.S. Army Aero Flight Dynamics Directorate (AFDD) personnel successfully conducted the first test ...
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PHM and Principles of Diagnostics Conferences
NASA Ames and the Intelligent Systems Division had a strong showing at this year's Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society 2010 in Portland, Oregon on October ...
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Dr. Vadim Smelyanskiy Receives Two NASA Tech Brief Awards
In recognition of contributions to the National Space Program and the mission of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr. Vadim Smelyanskiy has received two NASA Tech Brief awards. Both awards are ...
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Release of NASA Earth Exchange Dashlink 2.0 Collaborative Websites
DASHlink 2.0 and NASA Earth Exchange have recently been released to the public. These sites were constructed off a collaborative web platform called C3 that was designed to easily enable ...
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Dr. Lilly Spirkovska Presents Anomaly Detection Using IMS at Spaceops 2010
Code TI’s Inductive Monitoring System (IMS) has been demonstrated for anomaly detection of the spacecraft Ground Support Equipment at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) as part of the Fault Detection, ...
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Inductive Monitoring System Assists in ISS Anomaly Detection Analysis
A system health monitoring software application called AMISS, based on the Intelligent Systems Division’s Inductive Monitoring System (IMS), has been deployed on the Attitude Determination and Control (ADCO) and the ...
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Isothermal Accelerated Aging System for Power Semiconductor Prognostics
An aging system for power semiconductors that isolates electrical overstress from temperature overstress has been built. The system controls the internal temperature of the test article in order to avoid ...
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FLEA Test Stand Baseline Flight on C-17
On March 11, 2010, a team consisting of members of the NASA Ames Diagnostics & Prognostics Group, the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, and the US Air Force successfully conducted ...
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Ashok Srivastava Wins IEEE Technical Achievement Award
The IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award is given for outstanding and innovative contributions in the field of computer and information science and engineering, or with computer technology, in the ...
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Ares I-X Ground Diagnostic Prototype Selected by AIAA
The December 2009 year-in-review issue of AIAA’s Aerospace America magazine lists the Ares I-X Ground Diagnostic Prototype as one of “the most substantive advances for intelligent systems” in 2009. BACKGROUND: ...
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AMISS Certified for ISS Flight Control Room Deployment
The Anomaly Monitoring Inductive Software System (AMISS), based on the Ames Research Center (ARC)-developed Inductive Monitoring System (IMS), underwent and passed Mission Control acceptance (certification) testing at Johnson Space Center ...
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Ares I-X Ground Diagnostic Prototype Demo at KSC
Mark Schwabacher and John Ossenfort traveled to Kennedy Space Center (KSC), where they had a successful demo of the Ares I-X Ground Diagnostic Prototype on May 14, 2009. It was ...
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Inductive Monitoring System Released to ISS Mission Evaluation Room
The Inductive Monitoring System (IMS) and IMS-based Anomaly Monitoring Inductive Software System (AMISS) have been released to the Boeing International Space Station (ISS) Mission Evaluation Room (MER) engineering staff for ...
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Presentations on Machine Learning Work Given to ACM
Mark Schwabacher gave a two-hour invited talk to the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Data Mining Special Interest Group (SIG) entitled “Using Supervised ...
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Integrated Flight Control and Actuator Health Management Meeting
Kai Goebel and Edward Balaban, members of the Diagnostic & Prognostic Group and the Prognostics Center of Excellence at NASA Ames Research Center, took part in a review meeting for ...
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Human Systems Integration and Intelligent Systems Division Collaborators Win SAE Outstanding Technical Paper Award
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International has determined that a conference paper based on a recent collaborative effort between Ames Intelligent Systems Division (Code TI) and Human Systems Integration ...
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Space Act Agreement Signed With Boeing Phantom Works
A non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement was signed between Boeing Phantom Works and NASA Ames Research Center on February 4, 2009. The Space Act Agreement has the purpose of developing health ...
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Anomaly Monitoring Inductive Software System Running in JSC Mission Control
Prototype Inductive Monitoring System (IMS) applications developed to provide real-time health monitoring for International Space Station (ISS) External Thermal Control System (ETCS) subsystems are now up and running (uncertified) in ...
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Prognostics Industry Day Held at Ames
The Prognostics Center of Excellence (PCoE) hosted the Prognostics Industry Day on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008. The Industry Day was co-sponsored by the Office of the Director of New Ventures ...
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Division Researcher to Chair Prognostics Conference
Kai Goebel will chair the International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM’09), to be held in Boston Sept. 28-Oct. 1, 2009. Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) is a system ...
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Framework Paper Presented at Prognostics And Health Management Conference
Tolga Kurtoglu presented a paper at the 2008 International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management October 6-9, 2008. The paper titled “A Systematic Framework for Benchmarking Monitoring and Diagnostic Systems” ...
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Best Professional Paper Award at Prognostics And Health Management Conference
“Integrating SHM to the Early Design of Aerospace Systems using Functional Fault Analysis” by T. Kurtoglu, S. Johnson, E. Barszcz, J. Johnson, and P. Robinson won the PHM 2008 Best ...
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Division Researcher Listed in Who’s Who in America
Dr. Sorin Dusan has been invited and his biography has recently been selected to be included in the Who’s Who in America 2009 Edition by Marquis for his work in ...
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Solar Array Constraint Engine Demonstrations
Jeremy Frank demonstrated the Solar Array Constraints Engine (SACE) software at 2008 AIAA Space, which took place September 9–11, 2008. Frank also demonstrated SACE at the International Conference on Automated ...
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Prognostics Posters at Data Mining Conference
Researchers from the Prognostics Center of Excellence will present three posters at the Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding to be held September 9–10 at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. B. ...
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Test Simulation System Paper to Be Published
“An Agile Accelerated Aging, Characterization and Scenario Simulation System for Gate Controlled Power Transistors,” by Greg Sonnenfeld, Jose Celaya, and Kai Goebel, has been accepted for publication at IEEE Autotestcon ...
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Prognostics Performance Metrics Paper Accepted
“Metrics for Evaluating Performance of Prognostic Techniques,” by Abhinav Saxena, Jose Celaya, Edward Balaban, Kai Goebel, Bhaskar Saha, Sankalita Saha, and Mark Schwabacher, has been accepted for presentation at the ...
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ARES I-X Ground Diagnostic Tool Technical Reviews
Two successful technical reviews were held at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on July 9th. In the morning, there was a review of the Ares I-X Ground Diagnostic Prototype (GDP) task. ...
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DASHlink Goes Live
DASHlink, a collaborative website for Discovery in Aeronautics Systems Health, went public on June 6, 2008. DASHlink is a virtual laboratory for scientists and engineers to disseminate results and collaborate ...
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