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AI to Help China Reach for the Stars
The Tiangong-2 (left) space lab's rendezvous and docking with the Tianzhou-1 (right) cargo spacecraft was shortened to six and a half hours thanks to AI.
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Building a space station, probing Mars, setting up a lunar base, and going deeper into the universe - artificial intelligence will be at the cutting edge of China's space odyssey.
China is stepping up development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to support its space programs, Zhang Duzhou, a member of the Chinese Association of Automation and the Chinese Society of Astronautics, told a space conference in Harbin.
Experts are developing AI technologies in visual image recognition, visual tracking, rendezvous and docking, navigation and positioning, mission planning, and spacecraft fault diagnosis, said Zhang.
AI technology is especially useful for spacecraft that are expensive, hard to repair, doing complicated tasks, deployed in a rigorous space environment, or so far from Earth that they respond to directions very slowly, said Zhang.
From Xinhua
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