Singularity - intelligence amplified, LLC proposes to develop a resilience toolkit enabling the planning, assessment, implementation, and utilization of resilience for future manned spaceflight and…

This is a $124,618 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Singularity - Intelligence Amplified, LLC, a New York-based small business. The contract is for the development of a "Resilience Toolkit" to enable the planning, assessment, implementation, and utilization of resilience for future manned spaceflight and autonomous systems. The project, titled "Strategic Technologies for Autonomy & Resilience Tools (START)," will demonstrate the associated technologies Singularity envisions integrating into a modular framework for designing and enabling resilience in autonomous systems. This SBIR Phase I award funds 12-24 months of research and development to advance AI and autonomous technologies relevant to NASA's spacecraft and operations.

Singularity - intelligence amplified, LLC proposes to develop a resilience toolkit enabling the planning, assessment, implementation, and utilization of resilience for future manned spaceflight and autonomous systems. The strategic technologies for autonomy & resilience tools (start) project will demonstrate the associated technologies the company envisions integrating as a toolkit within a modular framework for designing and enabling resilience for autonomous systems. The team proposes to use an incremental and modular development approach, permitting capture, modeling, and assessment of uncertainty throughout the process. A spiral development approach, beginning with architecture design and proposed approach feasibility will permit maximal reuse of incremental toolkit development artifacts. Accompanying the toolkit will be a set of defined metrics for resilience which enable the quantification of success, including improvement over baseline and enabling the computational optimization of contingency configurations. The end product, accompanied with a bayesian inspired overlay for uncertainty management offers a novel concept enabling design for resilience and risk assessment in the face of possibly unforeseen and previously not encountered situatioy. Resilience leverages thoughtful design, intimate knowledge of inherent component properties, and system capabilities. Operational resilience incorporates understanding of mission goals and condition awareness, along with anticipation enabled through possibility modeling and simulation within an aware, intelligent framework to yield a best fit solution in dynamic situations. While maximizing on a central goal, the system will track and prioritize the optimal solution across multiple facets of sustainability, future outcomes, and mission success. Prior relevant work in autonomy, robustness assessment, systems reliability, health management, and agent-based systems will inform the research and development effort.