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Los Angeles (LA) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Technical Activity Committee on Artificial Intelligence (TACART)

             TACART

TOPIC:       Tales from the Front:  War Stories
             from NASA's Autonomy Trenches

SPEAKER:     Dr. Erann Gat, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

DATE:        16 April 1997 (Wednesday night)

TIME:        The talk will begin at 7:30.

PLACE:       Loyola Marymount University, Pereira Hall 51.
             LMU is located at Loyola Blvd. and 80th Street in
             Westchester. From the 405, take the Manchester exit
             and proceed west to Loyola Blvd.  Turn north, and
             continue until you enter the LMU campus.  Ask the
             guard for directions to Pereira Hall. Parking is free.

ABSTRACT:    This talk is about designing a control system for an
             autonomous spacecraft. It will focus on the features
             that make spacecraft control a uniquely challenging
             and fertile problem for AI and autonomous agent 
             research: complex subsystem interactions, hard
             real-time deadlines, and uncertainties introduced
             by hardware failures, modeling errors, and the
             environment.  One solution to the problem is
             currently under development as part of NASA's
             New Millennium technology development program,
             and is scheduled to fly on the Deep Space 1 (DS1)
             mission which is to launch next summer.

BIOGRAPHY:   Erann Gat is a member of the technical staff at the
             California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Lab.
             He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech while at JPL,
             where he was working on autonomous mobile robots. He
             has written the control software for half a dozen
             different autonomous robots, including the Mars 
             Science Microrover, the precursor to the rover on the
             Pathfinder mission to Mars, and Alfred, which took
             first place at the 1993 AAAI mobile robot contest.
             His work in mobile robots led to the development of
             ESL (Execution Support Language), which is currently
             being used to implement the executive component of the
             autonomy software for DS1. He is also a private pilot.

DINNER:      No dinner is planned.  No social activities are planned.
NEWSGROUPS:  Announced in comp.ai, la.seminars, ca.seminars.
HOMEPAGE:    can be reached from the chapter page http://www.acm.org/~lac
CONTACTS:    L. Andrew Campbell campbell@aero.org (310) 336-8642 or
             Program Chair Barney Toma tomab@ecn.com (310) 323-8451.
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