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These proceedings contain papers presented at the NASA Conference on Space Telerobotics held in Pasadena, January 31 to February 2, 1989. The theme of the Conference was man-machine collaboration in space. The Conference provided a forum for researchers and engineers to exchange ideas on the research and development required for application of telerobotics technology to the space systems planned for the 1990s and beyond. The Conference: (1) provided a view of current NASA telerobotic research and development; (2) stimulated technical exchange on man-machine systems, manipulator control, machine sensing, machine intelligence, concurrent computation, and system architectures; and (3) identified important unsolved problems of current interest which can be dealt with by future research

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Funding: Research, preparation of materials and preparation of the textbook were carried out under the project – grant no. PPI/KAT/2019/1/00015/U/00001 "Cognitive technologies – second-cycle studies in English" and were carried under the KATAMARAN program Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). The program is co-financed by the European Social Fund under the Knowledge Education Development Operational Program, a non-competition project entitled "Supporting the institutional capacity of Polish universities through the creation and implementation of international study programs" implemented under Measure 3.3. Internationalization of Polish higher education, specified in the application for project funding no. POWR.03.03.00-00-PN 16/18. The project was carried out in cooperation with the Silesian University of Technology (project leader – Poland) and the Kiev National University of Construction and Architecture (project partner – Ukraine).Фінансування: Дослідження, підготовка матеріалів та підготовка підручника були здійснені в рамках проекту - грант №. PPI/KAT/2019/1/00015/U/00001 "Когнітивні технології-навчання другого циклу англійською мовою", які здійснювалися за програмою КАТАМАРАН Польське національне агентство академічного обміну (NAWA) . Програма спільно фінансується Європейським соціальним фондом у рамках програми "Знання" Оперативна програма розвитку освіти, позаконкурентний проект під назвою "Підтримка інституційної спроможності польських університетів через створення та реалізація міжнародних навчальних програм ", що реалізуються відповідно до Заходу 3.3. Інтернаціоналізація польської вищої освіти, зазначена у заявці на фінансування проекту POWR.03.03.00-00-PN 16/18. Проект здійснювався у співпраці з Сілезьким технологічним університетом (керівник проекту - Польща) та Київським національним університетом будівництва та архітектури (партнер проекту - Україна)

The 1990 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence

The papers presented at the 1990 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence are given. The purpose of this annual conference is to provide a forum in which current research and development directed at space applications of artificial intelligence can be presented and discussed. The proceedings fall into the following areas: Planning and Scheduling, Fault Monitoring/Diagnosis, Image Processing and Machine Vision, Robotics/Intelligent Control, Development Methodologies, Information Management, and Knowledge Acquisition