Reference a paper describing the increased CPU capabilities of “intelligent (and autonomous) systems on spacecraft”, and say that the intelligent and blockchain systems should carefully share the CPU.

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Reference a paper describing the increased CPU capabilities of “intelligent (and autonomous) systems on spacecraft”, and say that the intelligent and blockchain systems should carefully share the CPU. #3

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bretthenderson commented 4 years ago

Reviewer 1 Comment This paper made the point that blockchain technologies appeal to organizations planning missions that have communication delays. These same organizations are/should be considering deploying increasingly intelligent (and autonomous) systems on spacecraft. The intelligent systems also require increased computing capabilities. There is reason to consider combining the computing requirements for intelligent systems and blockchain technologies together, rather than having them appear as separate, unrelated capabilities for future spacecraft. It may make sense to collaborate with one or more people from the AIAA intelligent systems community to a future paper (meanwhile, please better connect with the literature and offer a discussion on this topic in your revision - no specific extensions to your technical approach are requested as this would likely be so significant as to be a follow-on paper).

saltiniroberto commented 4 years ago

Here are a few relevant papers

Cybersecurity Planning for Artificial Intelligent Systems in Space
Multiple Autonomous Agile Satellites Coordinating and Planning in an Uncertain Environment
Intelligent Approach for Collaborative Space Robot Systems I am not really sure about the relevance of this paper. It could potentially be cited as to show that decentralised robots can collaborate to perform tasks

saltiniroberto commented 4 years ago

Intelligent Decentralized Survey of Volcanic Plumes from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platforms

prototypo commented 4 years ago

The papers listed so far are relevant, but not as ideal as hoped. We are still looking.

Here’s a great one for historical context (Flash player required) https://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/publications/ESA-Bulletin-042/ Look on page 51 for the article “Artificial intelligence - A space tool of the future?”

Citation:


  title={Artificial intelligence- A space tool of the future?},
  author={Garrido, C and MORTENSEN, KJAERGAARD},
  journal={ESA Bulletin},
  number={42},
  pages={51--53},
  year={1985}
}```

prototypo commented 4 years ago

Mars rovers are probably the top end of space-based autonomous capability.

Wikipedia says the specifications for the Mars Curiosity rover (launched in 2011) were: “The two identical on-board rover computers, called Rover Compute Element (RCE) contain radiation hardened memory to tolerate the extreme radiation from space and to safeguard against power-off cycles. The computers run the VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS). Each computer's memory includes 256 kB of EEPROM, 256 MB of DRAM, and 2 GB of flash memory.”

Here is a comparison over time. Note how little computing capability they have! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_embedded_computer_systems_on_board_the_Mars_rovers

prototypo commented 4 years ago

Added https://github.com/prototypo/blockchains-in-space/commit/68b4f9e2bb4821c977418ce585a9b166adde398a to address this issue.

prototypo commented 4 years ago

This book came out, and may be what the reviewer had in mind. Unfortunately, I didn't see it (via an AIAA announcement) until after we submitted our revision. https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/4.104794