NASA's ECOSTRESS mission seeks to better understand how much water plants need and how they respond to stress. Two processes show how plants use water: evaporation and transpiration. Evaporation of water from the soil surrounding plants affects how much water the plants can use.

AI Smarts for an Ice Hunting Radar: SMart ICE cloud Sensing (SMICES) Scheduling and Execution

Background Since the dawn of the space age, unmanned spacecraft have flown blind with little or no ability to make autonomous decisions based on the content of the data they collect. The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE) is operating onboard the Earth Observing-1 mission since 2003. The ASE software uses onboard continuous planning, robust task and goal-based execution, and onboard ...

Next steps are to continue expanding the vocabulary of goals and constraints available to users, optimize performance with the Aerie simulation engine, and scale up to full Europa Clipper tour sized plans. Aerie is an open-source project hosted on GitHub under MIT license. References [1] https://github.com/NASA-AMMOS/aerie [2] https://ammos ...

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NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) consists of thirteen large (34- and 70-meter) antennas that are used to communi-cate with approximately 40 NASA and partner spacecraft, all at great distance from the earth (generally at Lunar distances and beyond).

NASA: AI Will Lead the Future of Space Exploration "Steve Chien and Kiri Wagstaff of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have predicted that in the future, the behavior of space probes will be governed by AI rather than human prompts from earth."

Recent Professional Activities: - Keynote Speaker, “Trusted AI on Mars: Case Study of the M2020 Onboard Planner,” AIAA Intelligent System Workshop, Lincoln, NE, June 2024. - Invited Speaker, “Artificial Intelligence in Space and the Search for Life beyond Earth,” Emerging Technology Forum, MIT Technology Review, Seoul, KR, May 2024.

Official Bio Tiago S. Vaquero is a Technical Group Supervisor of the Artificial Intelligence Group, Planning and Execution Section, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Tiago holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Tiago previously held a MIT research scientist position and a …

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