NASA engineer teaches AI to be 'GPS-like' to guide astronauts over the lunar surface

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NASA engineer teaches AI to be 'GPS-like' to guide astronauts over the lunar surface
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An AI system is being developed to lead explorers around the lunar surface.

we have on Earth, scientists have been attempting for years to figure out how to travel over the lunar surface.

Now, Alvin Yew, a research engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is creating an AI system that leads explorers around the lunar surface. These digitized panoramas are then exploited to match images captured by a rover or astronaut with known boulders, ridges, and even craters, allowing precise location identification for any given area.

The idea is that LunaNet will serve as a network that spacecraft and future astronauts can access without organizing data transfers in advance, as space missions do presently.Still, Yew's AI system would not so much help out in the sense of providing internet.

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