Artificial Intelligence
8 Jan 2007

Workshop Programme (IJCAI-07)


9:00-9:05Welcome by the Organising Committee


9:05-9:40Opening Speech

9:05

Steve Chien
Technical Group Supervisor, Artificial Intelligence Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Onboard Autonomy for Future Science Missions


9:40-10:50 Invited Talks

9:40

Gianfranco Visentin
Head of Automation and Robotics Section, ESA

Artificial Intelligence in ESA Automation and Robotics

10:15

Ari K. Jónsson
Principal Investigator for Spacecraft Autonomy, NASA Ames Research Center


10:50-11:20 Coffee Break


11:20-13:00 Oral Session

11:20

David Kortenkamp, R. Peter Bonasso and Debra Schreckenghost
NASA Johnson Space Cente, TRACLabs Inc.

Adjustably Autonomous Execution of Procedures On-Board Crewed Spacecraft

11:45

A.Indra, A.Venkateswarlu, V.K.Agrawal and VVS Sarma
ISRO Satellite Centre, Indian Institute of Science

Autonomous On-board Mission Planning in a Petri Net Framework

12:10Amedeo Cesta, Gabriella Cortellessa, Simone Fratini, Angelo Oddi, Nicola Policella ISTC-CNR, National Research Council of ItalyRAXEM: Toward a Systematic Approach to Support Mission Planning
12:35John S. Kinnebrew, Nishanth Shankaran, Gautam Biswas, and Douglas C. Schmidt
Vanderbilt University
A Decision-Theoretic Planner with Dynamic Component
Reconfiguration for Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems


13:00–14:00 Lunch Break


14:00-14:40 Poster Session

Alfons Schuster,
University of Ulster
Robust Artificial Intelligence
Erhard Rabenau, Alessandro Donati, Amedeo Cesta and Angelo Oddi,
NOVA Space Associates Ltd., ESA-ESOC, ISTC-National Research Council of Italy
AI infusion at ESA-ESOC: The user perspective on MEXAR2
LI Yu qing, WANG Ri xin, XU Min qiang,
Harbin Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Deep Space Exploration Research Center

An Onboard Autonomous System Architecture for Spacecraft

Michael Broschart, Cristina de Negueruela, José del R. Millán, Carlo Menon,
ESA Advanced Concepts Team, IDIAP Research Institute
Augmenting Astronaut’s Capabilities through Brain-Machine Interfaces

Nicolas Croisard, Matteo Ceriotti and Massimiliano Vasile,
University of Glasgow

Uncertainty Modelling in Reliable Preliminary Space Mission Design


14:40-15:30 Oral Session

14:40Gregory Bonnet and Catherine Tessier,
ONERA
On-board Cooperation for Satellite Swarms
15:05Dario Izzo, Lorenzo Pettazzi and Daniela Girimonte
ESA Advanced Concepts Team
A Path Planning Technique Applied to Satellite Swarm


15:30–16:00 Coffee Break


16:00-15:50 Oral Session

16:00

Alessandro Donati, Jose Antonio Martinez-Heras, Alexander Baumgartner
ESA ESOC, Black Hat, Solenix GmbH

Artificial Intelligence in support of Mission Operations: Experiences and Perspectives

16:25

Luis F. Rodriguez, Haibei Jiang, Kirsten Stark, Scott Bell, David Kortenkamp
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NASA-Johnson Space Center

Validation of Heuristic Techniques for Design of Life Support Systems

16:50Rebecca Castaño, Tara Estlin, Robert C. Anderson, Ben Bornstein, Daniel Gaines, Caroline Chouinard, Michael Burl, Andres Castaño, David Thompson, Michele Judd,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
OASIS: Onboard Autonomous Science Investigation System for Opportunistic Rover Science

17:15

Matteo Ceriotti, Nicolas Croisard, Massimiliano Vasile
University of Glasgow

A Non-Deterministic Planner for Planetary Rovers

17:40

Debra Schreckenghost, Tod Milam, Kevin Kusy and William Bluethmann,
Metrica, S&K Technologies, NASA Johnson Space Center

Detecting Safety Events for Supervision of Remote Robotic Activities


18:05 Workshop Wrap-up and Conclusions

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