Machine Intelligence and Robotics. Members of the NASA Study Group.
June 1977-September 1979.

III. NASA Needs...

IV. Applications of Machine Intelligence and Robotics in the

Space Program.

A. Introduction ...

B. Robots and Automation in NASA Planning

C. Future Applications

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B. Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence

Marvin Minsky

C. Heuristic Programming: III-Structured Problems

Allen Newell ...

D. Artificial Intelligence

Nils J. Nilsson ...

E. The art of artificial intelligence - Themes and case studies of

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knowledge engineering

Edward A. Feigenbaum

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F.

Remarks on the relationship between artificial intelligence and
cognitive psychology

Mars surface robot will operate for 2 years and travel about 1000 km
performing experiments automatically and sending the scientific
information back to Earth . . .

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Artist's concept of a Mars surface scientific processing and sample return
facility....

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Seasat

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Large space systems require robot and automation technology for
fabrication, assembly, and construction in space

Large space antennas are erected with the help of a space-based
construction platform

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Construction of a space station

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4-8 Complex construction facility in space with automatic beam builders, cranes, manipulators, etc., is served by the Shuttle

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4-9 Space construction of large antenna systems with automated tools, teleoperated manipulators, and free-flying robots

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4-10 Automated material processors on the lunar surface are serviced by robot vehicles with raw lunar soil

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Data storage technology

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