Solar System Exploration

Autogen is used for operations of MRO, MER, Mars Odyssey, and Phoenix, and was used on MGS. Through the use of Autogen for base sequence generation of these missions,operations cost have been significantly reduceds through the reduction in labor/timeand risk involved in the sequence generations...

The marsautotie program generates tiepoints for use with the Mars pointing correction software in a completely automated manner, with no operator intervention. It takes input images and finds overlaps according to the nominal pointing. It then finds the most "interesting" areas using a scene...

This autonomous science system for multiple spacecraft assets was integrated with the Interplanetary Network DTN (Delay Tolerant Network) to provide communication between spacecraft assets. The full integrated system was then demonstrated at the JPL Mars Yard where it was shown to autonomously...

NASA atmospheric and Earth science missions generate vast amounts of data every day. Clustering algorithms are used in various applications including pattern recognition, classification, data compression, regression, and related optimization problems. The design implements a computational solution...

Software rapidly processes hyperspectral data, correcting for incident sunlight where necessary and atmospheric transmission,detects thermally-anomalous pixels, fits data with model black-body thermal emission spectra to determine radiant flux, calculates atmospheric convection thermal removal, and...

The ALHAT simulation tool provides an efficient software model and a set of algorithms in C code for performing scanning lidar-based hazard detection and avoidance.

The contribution (Autonomous Phase Retrieval Calibration) is technologically significant to the space (astronomy) community, since it provides a significant leap in the optical performance of a large observatory by using only software to optimize existing controllable hardware in ways that were...

The safety system consists of two features:The first part is a system monitor that runs on the quadrotor UAV flight computer to analyze system health. If a critical state is detected the module triggers a safety alert to initiate emergency behaviors like hover in place or emergency landing.The...

AiResearch Manufacturing Company, a division of the Garrett Corporation, is engaged in manufacturing a broad variety of products of the aerospace, energy, metals, transit, and marine industries. Products such as fuel controls and rotating accessories for gas turbines are produced by another Garrett...

Under a Jet Propulsion Laboratory SBIR, Cambridge Research and Instrumentation Inc., developed a new class of filters for the construction of small, low-cost multispectral imagers. The VariSpec liquid crystal enables users to obtain multi-spectral, ultra-high resolution images using a monochrome...