Stanford Researchers Develop AI System for Autonomous Spacecraft Docking
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Researchers at Stanford have developed ART (Autonomous Rendezvous Transformer), an AI system to plan safe trajectories for autonomous spacecraft docking.
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ART integrates AI and traditional methods to rapidly generate high-quality trajectory candidates.
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Testing is being done at the Stanford Center for AeroSpace Autonomy Research (CAESAR).
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In tests, ART has outperformed other AI architectures at planning space rendezvous.
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Next steps are further developing ART and testing it in CAESAR's realistic experimental environment.