Self-driving spacecraft? The challenge of verifying AI will work as intended

摘要

To prepare for self-driving cars, mobility companies have spent more than a decade gathering data from thousands of vehicles equipped with cameras, radar, lidar, GPS receivers and inertial measurement units. No comparable database exists for companies or government agencies aiming to give spacecraft more autonomy. "We don't have the plethora of data or sensors," Franklin Tanner, Raytheon machine learning and computer vision engineer, said in May at the Space Tech Expo in Pasadena, California. "We can simulate a lot of activity and do modeling but do not have as much of the real-world data."