Intelligent Systems Division

Technical Research Areas

Autonomous Systems and Robotics
Overview The Exploration Vision calls for closer cooperation between humans and robots than ever before. Creating robust robotic assistants, as well as making key spacecraft systems self sufficient, requires building ...
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Collaborative & Assistant Systems
Overview As NASA missions become longer and more scientifically complex, so will the ongoing participation of and cooperation between individuals in many different locations. At the same time, human/machine interactions ...
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Discovery and Systems Health
Overview The Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH) technical area focuses on challenges in understanding engineering and science data. The engineering data understanding work is centered around the emerging systems engineering ...
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Robust Software Engineering
Overview We are the Robust Software Engineering technical area, based in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California. Our goal is to dramatically increase ...
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Highlights

XSearch System Successfully Deployed Into MCC Operations
The second and final phase of XSearch deployment was completed successfully on July 22, 2008 when the system went live as part of the International Space Station (ISS) Mission Control ...
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NASA Imaging Tools Provide Firefighting Support
NASA flew unmanned aircraft equipped with a thermal-infrared imaging system over much of California last week, gathering information that helped fight more than 300 wildfires burning within the state. The ...
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DASHlink Goes Live
DASHlink, a collaborative website for Discovery in Aeronautics Systems Health, went public on June 6, 2008. DASHlink is a virtual laboratory for scientists and engineers to disseminate results and collaborate ...
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OCAMS System Deployed in Mission Control at JSC
After a successful two-week operations testing phase in Johnson Space Center’s International Space Station (ISS) Mission Control, the Orbital Communications Adapter Monitoring System (OCAMS) began “live” operations on July 8, ...
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