Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. AE Chair's Distinguished Seminar Series: "AI in Space - From Earth Orbit to Mars and Beyond!" (September 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65849 65849-16660112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Steve Chien and Jagriti Agrawal

Artificial Intelligence is playing an increasing role in our everyday lives and the business marketplace. This trend extends to the space sector, where AI has already shown considerable success and has the potential to revolutionize almost every aspect of space exploration.

We first highlight a number of success stories of the tremendous impact of Artificial Intelligence in Space: over a dozen years of operations of the Autonomous Sciencecraft on EO-1, the Earth Observing Sensorweb tracking volcanoes, flooding and wildfires and automated targeting onboard the MER and MSL rovers.

Next we describe how AI-based scheduling is being deployed to NASA's next rover to Mars, the M2020 rover.

Finally we discuss why AI is essential to the search for life beyond Earth, highlighting the key role of AI in Europa Submersible and Interstellar mission concepts.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Steve Chien is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology where he leads efforts in autonomous systems for space exploration. Dr. Chien has received numerous awards for his research in space autonomous systems including: NASA Medals in 1997, 2000, 2007, and 2015; he is a four time honoree in the NASA Software of the Year competition (1999, 1999, 2005, 2011); and in 2011 he was awarded the inaugural AIAA Intelligent Systems Award. He has led the deployment of ground and flight autonomy software to numerous missions including the Autonomous Sciencecraft/Earth Observing One, WATCH/Mars Exploration Rovers, Earth Observing Sensorwebs, IPEX, ESA’s Rosetta, ECOSTRESS and OCO-3 missions and is currently contributing to onboard and ground scheduling for the M2020 rover mission.

Ms. Jagriti Agrawal is a Member of Technical Staff in the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology where she works on automated scheduling for the upcoming M2020 Mars Rover mission.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:42:40 -0400 2019-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T17:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion M2020_for_585_Seminar
AE285 Udergraduate Seminar: Orion & Gateway Status (September 20, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67424 67424-16849176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Corey Brooker, Orion—Launch Vehicle Integration Lockheed Martin

Corey Brooker will provide a status of the Orion Program and where we are headed with the Gateway. NASA and its prime contractors are ready to send our astronauts back to deep space—this time, to stay. We have been given bold direction from the current administration and NASA to land the first woman on the moon by 2024. Join us for a bit of history on Orion, where we are today, and where we are going in the not-too-distant future. Hear about NASA’s plans for an orbiting station around the moon called Gateway. There will be time for Q&As after the presentation.

About the speaker...

Corey Brooker has been serving the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) within the Commercial Civil Space Line of Business at Lockheed Martin Space Company for the past 10 years. He leads the LM Orion Launch Vehicle Integration efforts between MPCV and the Space Launch System (SLS) for both Exploration Mission (EM)-1 and EM-2. He was recently selected to the Executive Development Growth Enhancement (EDGE) program. He is also leading the change effort for EM-2 to fly on the SLS Block 1B vehicle. In addition to his launch vehicle integration, he co-leads the Employee Engagement team for Orion Denver. Previously, he led the technical integration of the Orion EFT-1 Mission with ULA on the Delta IV that flew Dec 5th, 2014 and supported the Systems Analysis efforts for Pad Abort 1 that flew May 6th, 2010.

Previous work experience includes over 12 years of Loads & Dynamics for launch vehicle development, design and production flights on the Atlas V and Delta IV evolved expendable launch vehicles. He has been a part of 11 Atlas V and 10 Delta IV mission successful flights.

Corey holds a Bachelor’s (1994) and Master’s Degree (1995) in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:43:30 -0400 2019-09-20T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-20T15:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion LMCO Orion and Gateway Status