In this Chip Chat podcast, Zahi Kakish, a doctoral student focusing on swarm robotics at Arizona State University, joins Shashi Jain, innovation manager at Intel, to talk about some remarkable work that’s emerged from NASA FDL, the space agency’s Frontier Development Lab.

Designed as an eight-week challenge, FDL is an AI accelerator project set up by NASA Ames, the SETI Institute, and private partners. Its goal? To bring together the best minds in AI and planetary science to tackle challenges facing NASA and the commercial space industry.

This past summer, with support from Intel principal engineers and an Intel® Xeon processor-based server at SETI, Kakish and his FDL team created a planning tool called the Mission Planner for Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems, MARMOT for short. Through the use of IA and machine learning, it enables two semi-autonomous rovers to communicate and work together to solve a task. 

With its collaborative systems and assistive AI, MARMOT delivers a significant performance improvement over missions that employ a single robot with a human operator. It represents a fresh and highly optimized approach to autonomy, and it’s available as open source code.

To access the code for all NASA FDL projects, visit https://gitlab.com/frontierdevelopmentlab. 

Additional information is available on the FDL site at https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/.

To learn about the Autonomous Collective Systems Lab at Arizona State University and their work on swarm robotics, go to http://faculty.engineering.asu.edu/acs/.

More about Intel’s involvement in FDL is posted on https://intel.com/ai. 

To access Intel AI DevCloud, a cloud hosted hardware and software platform that helps developers, researchers, and startups get started on AI projects, visit https://ai.intel.com/devcloud/.

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Applying AI to Advance Space Exploration – Intel® Chip Chat episode 627

Lisa Spelman, Vice President and General Manager Intel® Xeon® Products, Data Center Marketing at Intel Corporation, shares the origin of Intel’s data centric computing message as a customer-focused framework to tackle the today’s ultimate challenge and opportunity - data. Intel works with broad partner ecosystems to deliver hardware and software innovation in compute, storage and networking that supports the movement, storage and processing of every bit of data for better business outcomes.  

Cloudification of services and infrastructure is pervasive, which accelerates the utilization and creation of this data. Intel has invested over ten years in building the silicon foundation and software ecosystem for the cloud and cloud native architecture. That revolution has moved into the communication service provider market to support delivery of new services in a more cost-effective manner. Lisa talks about the convergence of 5G, cloud, edge and Internet of Things (IoT) that drives requirements for artificial intelligence, visual workloads and smart computing on the edge. 

Follow Lisa on Twitter @LisaSpelman.

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Data-Centric Computing at Intersection of AI, Edge, IoT, 5G and Cloud – Intel® Chip Chat episode 639

Intel Chip Chat is a recurring podcast series of informal interviews with some of the brightest minds in the industry, striving to bring listeners closer to the innovations and inspirations of the people shaping the future of computing, and in the process share a little bit about the technologists themselves.

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