Dr. Nasser Lashgarian Azad, Associate Professor of Systems Design Engineering, is working in collaboration with University of Strathclyde’s Aerospace Centre for Excellence to accelerate the development of enabling AI technologies. Along with the University of Arizona, MIT in Boston, the UK-based The Alan Turing Institute and commercial space companies LMO, Nominal Systems and GMV in the UK, and Columbiad, researchers will develop cutting-edge technologies to advance global space capabilities.
The £1.5M initiative focuses on the use of AI technologies in space safety and sustainability. Dr. Lashgarian Azad will be supporting this project by analyzing AI accuracy, the safety and security related to autonomous systems, and the interface with human operators.
Addressing some of the key AI challenges, Dr. Lashgarian Azad explains his role in this project, "to develop a robust safety-enhanced deep reinforcement learning to generate and execute optimal collision avoidance maneuvers for satellites".
In collaboration with research partners at the University of Strathclyde, Nasser and his team will also develop an AI layer based on NLP to explain collision avoidance decisions to satellite operators. Researching various AI challenges, this project will drive the future of AI and its ability to predict the motion of space objects, ultimately reducing risk of collisions and improve space flight safety.
For more information about this exciting project visit the University of Strathclyde website.
