Robonaut 2 and Watson: Cognitive dexterity for future exploration
| Autor: | Charles Claunch, Philip A. Strawser, Raphael Chancey, S. Michael Goza, Russell Potapinski, Logan C. Farrell, Julia Badger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0209 industrial biotechnology
Spacecraft Computer science business.industry Human spaceflight Cognitive computing Robonaut 02 engineering and technology NASA Deep Space Network Cognitive network Space exploration 020901 industrial engineering & automation 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Systems engineering Robot 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing business |
| Zdroj: | 2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference. |
| DOI: | 10.1109/aero.2018.8396490 |
| Popis: | Future exploration missions will dictate a level of autonomy never before experienced in human spaceflight. Mission plans involving the uncrewed phases of complex human spacecraft in deep space will require a coordinated autonomous capability to be able to maintain the spacecraft when ground control is not available. One promising direction involves embedding intelligence into the system design both through the employment of state-of-the-art system engineering principles as well as through the creation of a cognitive network between a smart spacecraft or habitat and embodiments of cognitive agents. The work described here details efforts to integrate IBM's Watson and other cognitive computing services into NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC)'s Robonaut 2 (R2) anthropomorphic robot. This paper also discusses future directions this work will take. A cognitive spacecraft management system that is able to seamlessly collect data from subsystems, determine corrective actions, and provide commands to enable those actions is the end goal. These commands could be to embedded spacecraft systems or to a set of robotic assets that are tied into the cognitive system. An exciting collaboration with Woodside provides a promising Earth-bound testing analog, as controlling and maintaining not normally manned off-shore platforms have similar constraints to the space missions described. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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