Topics will include, but are not limited to:

Artificial intelligence in space

Autonomous location, navigation and map-building, fault detection, isolation and recovery methods, image processing, object identification and feature detection, task planning and scheduling. 

Robotics in space

Mechanical design of planetary rovers, mechanical design of space manipulators, actuators   and sensors of space robots, end-effector/tools of space robots, re-configurable robots, robot mobility. 

Automation in space

Simulation technology, testing methods, remote operations, human-machine interaction, interaction with the space environment, data mining and analyzing.