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Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 52

Even accounting only 4 possible bodies (as in the Jupiter system) if 140 fly-bys are to be designed (as was the case for this particular mission) and at each fly-by one has to choose to "perform experiment" in of 1 out of 32 areas of the moon/planet, you have (4*32)^140 = 10^(295) possibile routes that all need to be optimized in low-thrust. It does not seem likely a computer will ever be built that can do that.

Submission + - Evolution of interplanetary trajectories reaches human-competitive levels (esa.int)

LFSim writes: It's not the Turing test just yet, but in one more domain, AI is becoming increasingly competitive with humans. This time around, it's in interplanetary trajectory optimization.

From the European Space Agency comes the news that researchers from its Advanced Concepts Team have recently won the Gold "Humies" award for their use of Evolutionary Algorithms to design a spacecraft’s trajectory for exploring the Galilean moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto).

The problem addressed in the awarded article was put forward by NASA/JPL in the latest edition of the Global Trajectory Optimization Competition. The team from ESA was able to automatically evolve a solution that outperforms all the entries submitted to the competition by human experts from across the world.

Interestingly, as noted in the presentation to the award's jury, the team conducted their work on top of open-source tools (PaGMO / PyGMO and PyKEP).

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Submission + - ESA seeks software innovators. Test your software in orbit!! (esa.int)

Dario Izzo writes: "The European Space Agency is giving the opportunity to try innovative software algorithms on board of one of its planned orbiting platform. The core architecure includes processors of unprecedented power (for space platforms) and it is fully reconfigurable even down to the operating system and firmware levels. Peripherals include cameras, GPS and attitude control. The full technical specifications are available via the European Space Agency web pages."

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