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Real-time remote scientific model validationThis paper describes flight results from the use of a CLIPS-based validation facility to compare analyzed data from a space life sciences (SLS) experiment to an investigator's preflight model. The comparison, performed in real-time, either confirms or refutes the model and its predictions. This result then becomes the basis for continuing or modifying the investigator's experiment protocol. Typically, neither the astronaut crew in Spacelab nor the ground-based investigator team are able to react to their experiment data in real time. This facility, part of a larger science advisor system called Principal Investigator in a Box, was flown on the space shuttle in October, 1993. The software system aided the conduct of a human vestibular physiology experiment and was able to outperform humans in the tasks of data integrity assurance, data analysis, and scientific model validation. Of twelve preflight hypotheses associated with investigator's model, seven were confirmed and five were rejected or compromised.
Document ID
19950013224
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Frainier, Richard
(RECOM Technologies, Inc. Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Groleau, Nicolas
(RECOM Technologies, Inc. Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1994
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Johnson Space Center, Third CLIPS Conference Proceedings, Volume 1
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Accession Number
95N19640
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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