{"id":205976,"date":"2025-02-09T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/ai-model-masters-new-terrain-at-nasa-facility-one-scoop-at-a-time"},"modified":"2025-02-09T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:06:15","slug":"ai-model-masters-new-terrain-at-nasa-facility-one-scoop-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/ai-model-masters-new-terrain-at-nasa-facility-one-scoop-at-a-time","title":{"rendered":"AI model masters new terrain at NASA facility one scoop at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-model-masters-new-terrain-at-nasa-facility-one-scoop-at-a-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extraterrestrial landers sent to gather samples from the surface of distant moons and planets have limited time and battery power to complete their mission. Aerospace and computer science engineering researchers at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign trained a model to autonomously assess and scoop quickly, then watched it demonstrate its skill on a robot at a NASA facility.<\/p>\n<p>Aerospace Ph.D. student Pranay Thangeda said they trained their robotic lander arm to collect scooping data on a variety of materials, from sand to rocks, resulting in a database of 6,700 points of knowledge. The two terrains in NASA\u2019s Ocean World Lander Autonomy Testbed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were brand new to the model that operated the JPL robotic arm remotely.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201cLearning and Autonomy for Extraterrestrial Terrain Sampling: An Experience Report from OWLAT Deployment,\u201d was published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/arc.aiaa.org\/doi\/abs\/10.2514\/6.2024-1962\" target=\"_blank\"><i>AIAA Scitech Forum<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extraterrestrial landers sent to gather samples from the surface of distant moons and planets have limited time and battery power to complete their mission. Aerospace and computer science engineering researchers at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign trained a model to autonomously assess and scoop quickly, then watched it demonstrate its skill [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}