{"id":654,"date":"2020-06-17T21:37:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/?p=654"},"modified":"2020-06-17T21:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:09:43","slug":"nasa-needs-your-help-to-guide-its-mars-rovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/2020\/06\/17\/nasa-needs-your-help-to-guide-its-mars-rovers\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Needs Your Help To Guide Its Mars Rovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>Do you want to help NASA but don&#8217;t know how?<strong> NASA needs your help<\/strong> to train the SPOC algorithm, which will guide it&#8217;s a Mars rovers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed the <strong>SPOC- Soil Property and Object Classification algorithm<\/strong>, which creates a visual map called &#8220;river planners&#8221; to guide the path of Curiosity rover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA&#8217;s <strong>Mars terrain classification algorithm<\/strong> needs you to draw boundaries around terrain and label them under one of the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sand<\/li><li>Consolidated Soil<\/li><li>BedRock<\/li><li>Big Rocks<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>JPL&#8217;s AI researcher, Hiro Ono, said that, just like in the case of self-learning cars, a deep learning algorithm generally needs <strong>hundreds of thousands of examples<\/strong> to train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA&#8217;s <strong>AI4Mars tool<\/strong> has a compilation of public database if more than 8000 Curiosity images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rover planner plans Curiosity&#8217;s routes in four to five hours. Researchers write <strong>hundreds of lines of codes<\/strong> so that unlike its predecessors, the rover can avoid running into rocks, slipping, or get stuck in the sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The planning involves <strong>anticipating shadows<\/strong> to determine accurate distances and <strong>pointing the antenna in the right direction<\/strong> to receive signals from Earth without any hindrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA will launch the <strong>Perseverance rover<\/strong>, Curiosity&#8217;s successor in the summer, and SPOC will benefit it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For added support, engineers are <strong>translating AI4Mars into other languages<\/strong>, including Hindi, Spanish, Japanese, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#AIMonks #AI #Algorithms #SPOCAlgorithm #NASA #MarsRover #CuriosityRover #PerseveranceRover #AI4Mars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span> Do you want to help NASA but don&#8217;t know how? 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