Building Intelligent Systems: Artificial Intelligence Research at NASA Ames Research Center

Abstract

The goal of building autonomous, intelligent systems is the major focus of both basic and applied research in artificial intelligence within NASA. This paper discusses the components that make up that goal and describes ongoing work at the NASA Ames Research Center to achieve the goal. NASA provides a unique environment for fostering the development of intelligent computational systems; the test domains, especially Space Station systems, represent both a welldefined need, and a marvelous series of increasingly more difficult problems for testing research ideas. One can see a clear progression of systems through research settings (both within and external to NASA) to space station testbeds to systems which actually fly on space station