| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K87708/01 |
| Title: |
THE EFFECTS OF SPACE RADIATION ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Underwood, Professor CI |
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| Department: |
Sch of Electronics & Physical Sciences |
| Organisation: |
University of Surrey |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 August 1996 |
Ends: |
31 July 1998 |
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100,729
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
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The number and range of activities taking place on board modern spacecraft is expanding with each new launch. These activities are also becoming more complex relying upon increasing levels of data exchange between groundstation and spacecraft. Thre is a great need therefore, for a higher degree of spacecraft autonomy and for more control and decision making tasks to be carried out on the spacecraft itself. The ability of neural networks to perform autonomous control tasks makes them ideal candidates for implementation on board spacecraft.We wish to apply a pRAM to an extremely important and complex task relevant to all spacecraft, namely Attitude Determination and Control. The neural network will be integrated into a star imaging system and used as an intelligent pattern recogniser, matching real star images with those from a star catalogue.Secondly, we wish to evaluate the pRAMs performance in relation to another type of image identification task. The neural network will be used in automatically identifying phenomena such as forest fires and volcanic activity. The effect of ionizing radiation on the networks reliability in carrying out this task will be evaluated and the results used to design a more robust network architecture.
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