Watchdog

UCSB Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

NASA Ames Research Center

Our Project

NASA astronauts are routinely faced with long, complex procedures and often have to call ground control for guidance. This presents a major problem for prospective missions: messages from Mars, for instance, have an up to 20-minute flight-time from one planet to the other. In collaboration with NASA's Ames Research Center, our project, Watchdog, aims to pioneer solutions by using AI to verify astronauts' fidelity to standard operating procedure and offer suggestions during deviation. The project fuses two approaches: neural network-based real-time video semantic analysis and a network of sensors embedded in astronaut equipment. It aims to identify specific subtasks and understand the ordinal relationships between them in a reliable and generalizable way, with the goal of laying the foundation for a more comprehensive autonomous mission guidance system.

The Team

We are a group of senior undergraduate students in Computer Engineering at UCSB. We would also like to thank and acknowledge UCSB faculty Dr. Yoga Isukapalli, graduate students Carrie Segal and Brandon Pon, and NASA researchers Dr. Jessica Marquez and Dr. Richard Joyce.

Ryan Lorica

Team Lead | Computer Vision

Jingzhe Chen

UX | Embedded Software

Jiacheng Liu

PCB Design | Peripheral Interfacing

Leo Mei

PCB Design | Peripheral Interfacing

Anzhe Ye

UX | Embedded Software

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