Workshop:Autonomous Systems in Extreme Environments

0004423 donnellan该奖项由美国国家科学基金会极地项目办公室提供，为与美国国家航空航天局联合主办的关于在极端环境中建立和部署自主系统的特别会议提供支持。自治系统被定义为永久的地球物理或天体物理装置，可以在几个月或几年的时间内自我维持。它们以固定的时间间隔或触发事件获取数据，并存储该数据或将其传输到数据中心。许多研究人员在极地、海底或其他需要自主系统的极端环境中进行研究。由于这类系统的科学潜力迅速发展，目前是一个很好的时机，可以在研讨会期间将社区聚集在一起，以讨论与为极端环境开发这些系统相关的特殊挑战，以便将过去的错误最小化，过去的成功可以建立在更好的科学产出的基础上。会议于1999年9月在加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳市喷气推进实验室的冯·卡门礼堂举行。研讨会的目标是促进自主系统设计方面的对话，就电力、热力、数据、通信和封装系统提出建议，并决定未来系统的标准化。研讨会还讨论了在将系统部署到极端环境之前应该满足的测试标准，并提出了建议。这些资金将用于筹备、出版和传播讲习班的成果。

0004423DonnellanThis award, provided by the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation, provides support for a special conference, sponsored jointly with NASA, on building and deploying autonomous systems in extreme environments. Autonomous Systems are defined as permanent geophysical or astrophysical installations that are self-sustaining over periods of months and years. They acquire data on a regular time interval or upon a triggering event and either store that data or transmit it to a data center. Many investigators conduct research in polar, sea floor, or other extreme environments that require autonomous systems. Because of the burgeoning scientific potential for such systems, the present is a good time to bring the community together during a workshop in order to discuss the special challenges associated with developing these systems for extreme environments so that past mistakes can be minimized and past successes can be built upon toward better scientific output. The conference venue was the Von Karman Auditorium at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the conference was held in September, 1999. The goals of the workshop were to promote dialogue on autonomous system design, make recommendations on power, thermal, data, communications, and packaging systems, and to decide on standardization for future systems. The workshop also included discussion of, and recommendations for, testing criteria that should be met before systems could deployed in extreme environments. These funds are to prepare, publish, and disseminate the results of the workshop.