Gregory A. Dorais, Ph.D.

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

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-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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-Hannibal

"Vitam impendere vero."

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-Thomas Jefferson

Summary Information

I am a Computer Scientist in the Spacecraft Autonomy Group
at the NASA Ames Research Center.

My Research Interests are:

Autonomous Systems
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Probabilistic Networks
Stochastic Prediction Sytems
Complex Adaptive Systems
Evolutionary Computation
Robotics
Dynamical Systems
Sensorimotor Integration
Remote Sensing
Vision

Projects

Personal Satellite Assistant
A softball-sized robot being developed to help crew members inside the Space Shuttle and Space Station.
Deep Space One Remote Agent Experiment
We completed a successful demonstration of the Remote Agent when it controlled Deep Space One during May, 1999. Subsequently, the Remote Agent was co-winner of the 1999 NASA Software of the Year Award.
A Video describing the Remote Agent and DS1 spacecraft.
Intelligent Deployable Execution Agents
Human-Centered Autonomous Agents

Publications

Douglas Bernard, Gregory Dorais, Edward Gamble, Bob Kanefsky, James Kurien, Guy K. Man, William Millar, Nicola Muscettola, Pandurang Nayak, Kanna Rajan, Nicolas Rouquette, Benjamin Smith, William Taylor, and Yu-Wen Tung, Spacecraft Autonomy Flight Experience: The DS1 Remote Agent Experiment, Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Technology Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sept. 28-30, 1999.

Gregory A. Dorais, R. Peter Bonasso, David Kortenkamp, Barney Pell, and Debra Schreckenghost, Adjustable Autonomy for Human-Centered Autonomous Systems, Working notes of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Adjustable Autonomy Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999, pp. 16-35.

P. Pandurang Nayak, Douglas E. Bernard, Gregory Dorais, Edward B. Gamble Jr., Bob Kanefsky, James Kurien, William Miller, Nicola Muscettola, Kanna Rajan, Nicolas Rouquette, Benjamin D. Smith, William Taylor, Yu-wen Tung, Validating the DS1 Remote Agent Experiment, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation in Space, Noordwijk, Netherlands, June 1-3, 1999.

Gregory A. Dorais, James Kurien, and Kanna Rajan, Remote Agent Demonstration, Autonomous Agents technical abstracts of the software demonstration session, Seattle, WA, May 2, 1999, pp. 43-44.

Gregory A. Dorais, R. Peter Bonasso, David Kortenkamp, Barney Pell, and Debra Schreckenghost, Adjustable Autonomy for Human-Centered Autonomous Systems on Mars, Proceedings of the First International Mars Society Convention, Boulder, CO, August 1998.

John Bresina, Gregory A. Dorais, Keith Golden, David E. Smith, Richard Washington, Autonomous Rovers for Human Exploration of Mars, Proceedings of the First International Mars Society Convention, Boulder, CO, August 1998.

Douglas E. Bernard, Gregory A. Dorais, Chuck Fry, Edward B. Gamble Jr., Bob Kanefsky, James Kurien, William Miller, Nicola Muscettola, P. Pandurang Nayak, Barney Pell, Kanna Rajan, Nicolas Rouquette, Benjamin D. Smith, Brain C. Williams, Design of the Remote Agent Experiment, Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Aspen, CO, March 21-28, 1998

Barney Pell, Gregory A. Dorais, Christian Plaunt, Richard Washington, The Remote Agent Executive: Capabilities to Support Integrated Robotic Agents, Working notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Integrating Robotic Research: Taking the Next Leap, Stanford, CA, March 23-25, 1998, pp. 47-54.

Gregory A. Dorais, An Evolutionary Computation Approach for Developing and Optimizing Discrete-time Forecasting and Classification Models. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1997. Doctoral committee: Keki B. Irani (Chair), Edmund H. Durfee, John H. Holland, John E. Laird, Robert K. Lindsay.

Erann Gat and Greg Dorais, Robot Navigation by Conditional Sequencing, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Diego, CA, May 8-13, 1994, vol. 2, pp. 1293-1299.

A selection of the above papers as well as other papers about the Remote Agent Executive can be downloaded from here.

Reaching Me

Address: NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 269-2, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
Phone: (650) 604-4851

E-mail:gadorais@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov

Last Updated: 12/9/99