将AI用于太空,推动人类探索并反哺地球发展。
Space AI: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Space to Improve Life on Earth
- 构建四类太空场景下的AI应用框架
- 涵盖从地面到深空的全链条智能系统
- 适合航天、人工智能与跨学科研究者
人工智能正深刻变革医疗、农业、金融等领域。随着地球资源约束加剧,太空成为新前沿。本文提出‘空间AI’这一融合人工智能与空间科学的跨学科领域,系统梳理历史与现状,构建四类任务场景框架:1)地球上的AI,包括智能任务规划、航天器设计优化、仿真与地面数据分析;2)轨道上的AI,聚焦卫星与空间站自主运行、空间机器人、星上/近实时数据处理、通信优化与轨道安全;3)深空中的AI,实现自主导航、自适应科学发现、资源测绘及长周期人机协作,克服通信延迟;4)多行星生命支持的AI,助力就地资源利用、栖息地与基础设施建设、生命支持与生态管理、以及韧性星际网络。空间AI不仅能加速人类太空探索能力,还将传感、机器人、优化与可信AI等技术成果转化为对地球社会的广泛影响。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming domains from healthcare and agriculture to finance and industry. As progress on Earth meets growing constraints, the next frontier is outer space, where AI can enable autonomous, resilient operations under extreme uncertainty and limited human oversight. This paper introduces Space AI as a unified interdisciplinary field at the intersection of artificial intelligence and space science and technology. We consolidate historical developments and contemporary progress, and propose a systematic framework that organises Space AI into four mission contexts: 1 AI on Earth, covering intelligent mission planning, spacecraft design optimisation, simulation, and ground-based data analytics; 2 AI in Orbit, focusing on satellite and station autonomy, space robotics, on-board/near-real-time data processing, communication optimisation, and orbital safety; 3 AI in Deep Space, enabling autonomous navigation, adaptive scientific discovery, resource mapping, and long-duration human-AI collaboration under communication constraints; and 4 AI for Multi-Planetary Life, supporting in-situ resource utilisation, habitat and infrastructure construction, life-support and ecological management, and resilient interplanetary networks. Ultimately, Space AI can accelerate humanity's capability to explore and operate in space, while translating advances in sensing, robotics, optimisation, and trustworthy AI into broad societal impact on Earth.
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