In-Space Physical AI Workshop Speakers

Welcome!

You can find our workshop schedule below. Registration will open soon! More details are forthcoming, so check back often.

Monday, November 4, 2024

Registration + Tea/Coffee (8 - 8:45 AM)

Continues through the sessions until lunch.

Welcome and Introduction (8:45 - 9:AM)

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Inaugural Address/Keynote (9 - 9:45 AM)

What’s new, what changed from last year: Advances in AI Technologies: LLM, Multimodal, Agents (9:45 - 11 AM)

: Industry session 1: Startups / Commercial Vendors/ Sponsors Presentations/Demos (11 AM - 12 PM)

Poster Session and Lunch (12 - 1:30 PM)

Topic 1: Scientific Exploration and Discovery in Space powered by AI (1:30 - 3 PM)

Lead: TBD
Co-lead: TBD

Scene setter (15 mins)
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Subtopics(1 hr 15 mins):
Vision processing, Navigation, Manipulation, Motion planning, Control strategy updates
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Topic 2: Autonomous Maintenance and Exploration in unstructured, unknown environments enabled by Robots (3 - 4:30 PM)

Lead: Shaoshuai Mou & Shreyas Sundaram
Co-lead: TBD

Subtopics (1 hr 15 mins):
Vision processing, Event detection, Opportunistic science – reacting autonomously to unplanned events
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Topic 3: Autonomous Control and Decision Making in deep space by human crew supported by AI (4:30 - 6 PM)

Lead: TBD
Co-lead: Shirley Dyke (T) & ShaoShuai Mou (T)

Subtopics (1hr 15 mins)
Prediction tools, Decision aiding, Knowledge transfer, Situational awareness, Human-autonomy-robotic teaming
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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Tea/Coffee (8 - 8:45 AM)

Continues through the sessions until lunch.

Fireside Chat (8:45 - 9:30 AM)

Nick Skytland, Chief Technologist, NASA Johnson Space Center
Norman Roy Garza, Jr., Executive Director of the Texas Space Commission

Funding: Government and Private Sponsors of PAI in Space projects (9:30 - 10:30 AM)

Topic 4: Autonomous Management of the Health of spacecraft and of astronauts supported by AI (10:30 AM - 12 PM)

Lead: TBD
Co-lead: Shirley Dyke (T)

Subtopics (1 hr 15 mins)
Fault detection and diagnosis, Fault containment, isolation, and recovery action selection, Planning and Execution, Dealing with unknown unknowns in system stat
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Lunch and Industry session 2: Startups/Commercial Vendors/ Sponsors Presentations/Posters/Demos (12 - 1:30 PM)

Topic 5: How do we know AI is doing the right thing? (1:30 - 3 PM)

Lead: Shirley Dyke
Co-lead: TBD

Subtopics (1 hr 15 mins)
Explainability/Transparency, Formal methods, Assurance, Digital twins
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Topic 6: Next steps and concrete collaborative projects (3 - 4:15 PM)

Lead: TBD
Co-lead: TBD

Wrap up and Vote of Thanks (4:15 - 4:30 PM)

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