News: space machine learning
AIML professor convenes world-class thinkers to bring AI to new heights
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The space sector is experiencing significant growth, both in Australia and globally. An April 2024 McKinsey and Company report estimates that the global space economy will be worth $1.8 trillion by 2035 (accounting for inflation), up from $630 billion in 2023.
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Award winning space AI
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AIML PhD candidate Sofia McLeod is researching ways to build an AI system that can safely land an autonomous spacecraft on a distant planetary or asteroid surface guided by visual input from a single event camera.
‘Set and forget’ machine learning delivers NASA prize-winning space innovation
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If you send a robot to the Moon, you’ve got to be sure it can do its job without constant human supervision.
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How astrophysics and machine learning took Michele Sasdelli from Germany to England to NASA to Adelaide
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Keeping track of space debris is difficult. Read how Dr Michele (Mike) Sasdelli is using machine learning to model the movement of space junk and other objects in Earth's orbit.
A/Prof Tat-Jun Chin Among the First Appointments Chairing $20m SmartSat CRC Investment
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Associate Professor Tat-Jun Chin, AIML's Director for Machine Learning for Space, is one the of the first appointments to oversee the $20 million investment to develop next generation space technologies through the SmartSat Collaborative Research Centre.
Getting junk out of space
A crack Australian team is using machine learning to tackle the threat of space junk wrecking new satellites.