This is a $560,365.56 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education. The grant is focused on improving the operational efficiency of robotic systems for use in crewed low Earth orbit, lunar, and Mars-based deployments. The research aims to enable robotic systems to leverage input from human operators to incrementally increase their operational...
This is a $316,780 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) for a research project related to missions to small bodies in space. The contract is focused on the characterization phase of such missions, which involves building 3D shape models and using them for optical relative navigation and estimation of dynamical properties. GTRC, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education, has...
This is a $500,000 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education associated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The award is for a two-year research project focused on developing "Technologies for Mixed-Initiative Plan Management for Human Space Flight". The goal is to create a representation of mission planning work that enables...
This is a $593,391 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Georgia TECH Research Corporation, a non-profit organization and state institution of higher learning. The research proposes a new integrated framework for identifying and prioritizing safe landing locations in real-time to enable inflight divert maneuvers. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion by October 14, 2023. Georgia...
This is a $400,966.00 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, requires the awardee to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. The work will focus on scientific research related...
This is a $3,390,065.79 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education associated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The grant is part of the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program and funds the Georgia Space Grant Consortium (GSGC), which supports STEM education,...
This is a $524,351.26 research grant awarded by NASA to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) to develop methods and tools for evaluating function allocation between robots and human crew members for deep space exploration missions. The grant aims to establish a validated approach for determining optimal role assignments between robots and humans based on task demands, robotic capabilities, and crew resources. The effort will leverage computational modeling through a framework called Work...
This is a $310,052 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC), a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to map and characterize the geometric structures that organize sensitivity to initial conditions in multi-body systems of interest to NASA. This knowledge will be combined with the use...
This is a $450,425.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher learning. The grant is for a research project titled "Statistical and Thermal Approaches to Constrain the Impact Induced Regolith Volatile Distribution Mechanisms," which is focused on studying the impact-induced distribution of volatile materials in planetary regolith. The award...
This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Institute of Technology Research Corporation (Georgia Tech Research Corp) for a research project titled "EXPANDING SPATIAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS IN GALE CRATER USING HIRISE COLOR DATA IN TANDEM WITH VNIR SPECTRAL DATA FROM CURIOSITY." The project aims to investigate the geology and stratigraphy of Gale Crater on Mars using data from the HiRISE camera and Curiosity...
This is a $493,544.29 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Institute of Technology Research Corporation (Georgia Tech Research Corp), doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, to develop and test theories and algorithms for the inspection, geometric reconstruction, and tracking of a small celestial body, such as an asteroid, using various sensor modalities including passive cameras and active time-of-flight 3D sensors. The objective is to enable autonomous navigation and maneuvering near small celestial bodies, which is critical for future missions involving remote characterization, sample return, and resource utilization. This research aims to advance the state-of-the-art in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and structure-from-motion (SFM) techniques specifically for space applications, taking into account the unique environmental and on-board spacecraft constraints. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is intended to mature the proposed technologies to a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 3 by the completion date of January 22, 2022.