Keynote address II: Adaptive distributed systems for space exploration: Present and future

Summary form only given. In this talk, Dr. Quadrelli will emphasize the need for adaptivity in four key categories of distributed autonomous systems for space exploration (Multiple, Multi-physics, Mission-level, Multi-scale). One category has to do with adaptivity and system reconfigurations in robotic exploration of extreme environments with multiple assets. Another category deals with adaptivity by exploiting the material multi-physics interactions in the physical implementation for robotic manipulation tasks. Another category deals with mission-level adaptivity, and the best example of this is a complex space system interacting with the atmosphere until it lands autonomously on the surface. Finally, the last category deals with multi-scale system adaptivity that enables space science, through an innovative re-thinking of the way space science missions are done today.