Could we use AI to guide spacecraft in space? 🛰️ #shorts
Drones are being raced at Delft University of Technology’s ‘Cyber Zoo’ to test the performance of neural-network-based AI control systems planned for next-generation space missions.
The drones have to complete a course as fast as possible, showing how quickly and efficiently they can react, just like a spacecraft would need to in space.
Normally, spacecraft manoeuvres are planned on the ground and then uploaded to the spacecraft to be carried out. But space is full of unpredictable events! Whenever the spacecraft deviates from its planned path for whatever reason, it has to use a lot of fuel and resources to get back on track.
Instead, with this alternative AI control system that’s being tested here, the spacecraft would continuously recalculate and adjusts its path in real-time from wherever it is.
This approach would be much more efficient because the spacecraft could handle unexpected changes better and use fewer resources to stay on course.
📹 ESA – European Space Agency
📸 ESA/TU Delft
#ESA #AI #Satellite
wow .. pretty senorita
I want to work here in the future
wouldn't all this processing take a lot of energy?
we could, but we also have to know that it might fail and we gotta put 2 to 2 to calculate how much damage it would cause.
Don't trust AI blindly. It has to be monitored closely. Like a child who makes unodes, when you don't watch 😉
Oh yeah, Skynet navigation in the skies, suuuuure.
This is silly, a drone is ont thing sattelites are another, 1 they already use self guidance but they need human supervision if things go bad upthere theey can turn very serious.
2. Space is full of radiation advanced silicon don't last long
Are they already using this for the lunar landers.
Thats a great idea and innovation, which would really bring these controls into an completely new age, great to hear about that!
Duh