"The New Millennium Remote Agent: To Boldly Go Where No AI System Has Gone Before"

9/11/1998: [time not recorded]
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Abstract: The New Millennium Remote Agent is an autonomous spacecraft control system being developed jointly by NASA Ames and JPL. It integrates constraint-based planning and scheduling, robust multi-threaded execution, model-based diagnosis and reconfiguration, and real-time monitoring and control. The Remote Agent will control Deep Space One (DS-1), the first of NASA's New Millennium missions launching in late 1998. As the first AI system to autonomously control an actual spacecraft, the Remote Agent will enable the establishment of a "virtual presence" in space through an armada of intelligent space probes that autonomously explore the nooks and crannies of the solar system. I will briefly describe the main components of the Remote Agent system and then focus on Livingstone. Livingstone, which provides the diagnosis and reconfiguration capabilities of the Remote Agent, is a kernel of a reactive model-based autonomous system that performs significant deduction within the reactive control loop. Based on the IJCAI-97 Invited Talk given jointly with Nicola Muscettola, Barney Pell, and Brian Williams.

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