NASA officials are reporting encouraging results from an experiment in which artificial intelligence software is being used to determine the root causes of simulated technical glitches aboard the agency’s Earth Observing-1 imaging satellite.
The software, called Livingstone, was developed by computer scientists at Ames Research Center in California. The Ames team named the software after the 19th Century explorer and doctor, David Livingstone. The version being tested on Earth Observing-1, or EO-1, is a more powerful version of the Livingstone software that was first tested successfully on NASA’s Deep Space 1 spacecraft in 1999. Livingstone’s designers are convinced that artificial intelligence software will be the best way to prevent technical mishaps during future robotic or human missions into deep space. Continuous communications with Earth will be impossible on these missions due to signal-transit delays and planetary obstructions. Spacecraft therefore will have to self-diagnose technical failures, and if possible find a solution, said members of the Livingstone team.
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