Re: reg project

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

Let us use honor-code and save some trees.  You can just give me the
analysis page. I wont need the output pages from the various runs. I
will trust that you did do the runs and are not making up numbers
(afterall, if you write papers, they will have to trust you anyway ;-)

Rao
[Feb 23, 2003]


From: Preetha.Appan@asu.edu
Subject: reg project
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 20:09:18 -0700 (MST)
Message-ID: <1045969758.3e583b5e3cd0f@webmail.asu.edu>

Preetha.Appan> Dr Rao,
Preetha.Appan> 
Preetha.Appan> Regarding the mini project, is it sufficent for us to write down and analyse 
Preetha.Appan> results (ie solution length/plan length and time ) for the problems using 
Preetha.Appan> different heuristics or should we also attach something like a output sheet 
Preetha.Appan> showing how altalt solved each case of the problem (ie other details like nodes 
Preetha.Appan> expanded, graph construction time , actions in each level etc )
Preetha.Appan> 
Preetha.Appan> Preetha 
Preetha.Appan> 
Preetha.Appan>  
Preetha.Appan> Quoting Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>:
Preetha.Appan> 
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > Here is an advance notice of an upcoming seminar... the pdf attachment
Preetha.Appan> > has 
Preetha.Appan> > more information about the speaker etc. Please circulate.
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> >                                                  Special AI/DB
Preetha.Appan> > SeminarMarch 
Preetha.Appan> > 11th 3:15pm GWC 487
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > Move Over Hal& Autonomous Spacecraft in the New Millennium
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > Steve Chien
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > California Institute of Technology
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > <mailto:chien@aig.jpl.nasa.gov>chien@aig.jpl.nasa.gov 
Preetha.Appan> > http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/chien/
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > Beginning in 2003 and continuing through 2007 several space missions
Preetha.Appan> > will 
Preetha.Appan> > be carrying artificial intelligence (AI) software to perform 
Preetha.Appan> > decision-making onboard based on science goals.   The EO-1 Spacecraft 
Preetha.Appan> > (eo1.gsfc.nasa.gov) will use onboard image analysis, mission planning,
Preetha.Appan> > and 
Preetha.Appan> > robust execution software to autonomously perform science.  It will use
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > this AI software to detect and track science phenomena including:
Preetha.Appan> > volcanic 
Preetha.Appan> > activity, breakup of glacier ice, and Aeolian features (wind-influences
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > sand features).  The Three Corner Sat constellation of three spacecraft,
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > originally scheduled launches in August 2003 and will use 6 cameras to
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > capture stereoscopic images of high altitude clouds 
Preetha.Appan> > (threecornersat.jpl.nasa.gov). The Techsat-21 mission (ase.jpl.nasa.gov)
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > will use onboard autonomy software to conduct its mission.
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > This talk will describe how onboard AI software will dramatically
Preetha.Appan> > increase 
Preetha.Appan> > the science return on these missions, with an emphasis on EO-1. Onboard
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > science software will detect events (such as volcanic eruptions and
Preetha.Appan> > floods) 
Preetha.Appan> > an enable onboard mission planning to enable autonomous decision-making
Preetha.Appan> > and 
Preetha.Appan> > response.  We will also briefly discuss how these technologies might be
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > used in future missions such as an Io volcano observer or a cryobot to
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan> > explore the subsurface oceans of Europa.
Preetha.Appan> > 
Preetha.Appan>