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Gregg Rabideau, Daniel Tran, Steve Chien
To the Earth Observing One Sensorweb Team for outstanding
achievement in the development of an operational 24/7 autonomous
Earth Observing sensorweb integrating multiple space and ground
sensors.
2006
NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal
Steve Chien
In recognition of outstanding leadership of the Autonomous
Sciencecraft and Sensorweb efforts on Earth Observing One.
Level A Bonus Award
Steve Chien
In recognition of outstanding leadership of the Autonomous
Sciencecraft Experiment, enabling flight validation of autonomy
software to enable increased science return and reduced operations
costs.
Steve Chien, Daniel Tran, Ben Cichy, Gregg Rabideau
The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment software is a co-winner of
the 2005 NASA Software of the Year Award, for its ability to monitor
and respond to scientific events without ground intervention and the
entailed increase in science return and reduction in operations
costs. ASE is no longer an experiment: it is the primary mission
operations software for EO1.
Section 317 Team Award for Excellence
Tara Estlin,
Daniel Gaines,
Caroline Chouinard
For outstanding contributions to the OASIS Development Team leading
to the successful demonstration of autonomous planning and
scheduling for rover operations.
NASA Group Achievement Award
Gregg Rabideau, Daniel Tran, Steve Chien
For outstanding accomplishments in demonstrating, as part of the
Earth Observing-1 mission, the potential for space missions to
increase total engineering and science data return by using
spacecraft autonomous decision making.
NASA Group Achievement Award
Gregg Rabideau, Daniel Tran, Steve Chien
To the Livingstone on Earth Observing-1 Team
NASA Group Achievement Award
Gregg Rabideau, Daniel Tran, Steve Chien
Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment
Best Paper Runner-Up
Daniel Tran,
Steve Chien,
Gregg Rabideau,
Ben Cichy
For "Safe Agents in Space: Preventing and Responding to Anomalies in the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment" at
AAMAS 2005 Workshop on Safety and Security in Multi-Agent Systems, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2005.
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Level A Bonus Award
Daniel Tran
For Scientific and technical excellence: Outstanding technical
achievements in flight software development and resolution of
multiple inflight anomalies critical to the success of the
Autonomous Sciencecraft experiment enabling flight validation of
autonomy technology for future missions.
2004
Best Paper in Session
For "Onboard Autonomy on the Earth Observing One Mission," at
the 1st AIAA Intelligent Systems Technical Converence, Chicago, IL, September 2004.
2003
NASA Space Act Award
Brad Clement,
Tony Barrett,
Rus Knight,
Gregg Rabideau
For work on Abstract Reasoning for Multiple Rover Coordination.
NASA Space Act Award
The ASE software team was awarded a NASA Space Act Award in
recognition of "Significant Scientific and Technical Contributions
to NASA" for "Software for the TechSat 21 Autonomous Sciencecraft
Experiment (ASE)."
2002
Best Software Prototype Paper Finalist
For "The Techsat-21 Autonomous Space Science Agent" at
Agents 2002 Conference, Bolonga, Italy, July 2002.
Steve Chien
Granted for significant sustained performance characterized by
unusual initiative or creative ability that clearly demonstrates
substantial improvement in engineering, aeronautics, space flight,
administration, support, or space-related endeavors which contribute
to NASA programs.
NASA Group Achievement Award
ASPEN Development Team
In recognition of outstanding achievement in the design,
implementation, and deployment of an advanced planning and
scheduling system for spaceflight mission operations automation.
NOVA Leadership Award
Tara Estlin
For demonstrating leadership quality by open dialogue and direction
to many tasks and achievement of goals for these tasks.
1999
Honorable Mention, 1999 NASA Software of the Year - ASPEN
Steve Chien,
Gregg Rabideau,
Russell Knight,
Robert Sherwood,
Alex Fukunaga,
Ben Smith,
Forest Fisher,
Tara Estlin,
Tony Barrett,
Anita Govindjee,
Andre Stechert,
David Yan
Co-winner, 1999 NASA Software of the Year - Remote Agent
E. Gamble, Jr.,
B.D. Smith,
D.E. Bernard,
N.F. Roquette,
E. Gat,
Y.-W. Tung,
G.K. Man,
S.A. Chien,
S. Davies,
G. Rabideau,
D. Yan,
Daniel L. Dvorak
Group Achievement Award - Adaptive Problem Solving Team
Mike Burl,
Steve Chien (Team Lead),
Darren Mutz,
Andre Stechert
In recognition of breakthrough advances in statistical learning
techniques enabling significant performance improvement in adaptive
systems for automated planning and scheduling and optimization.
Group Achievement Award - Deep Space One Flight Software Team: (For Remote Agent Experiment Planner)
Steve Chien,
Anita Govindjee,
Gregg Rabideau,
Ben Smith,
Todd Turco,
David Yan
In recognition of outstanding achievement in the design,
development, and demonstration of an advanced autonomous agent for
spacecraft control.
Group Achievement Award - Deep Space Terminal (DS-T) Team
Steve Chien,
Tara Estlin,
Forest Fisher,
Darren Mutz
In recognition of outstanding achievement in the design,
development, and demonstration of an advanced autonomous Deep Space
Communications Station.
NOVA Award - Adaptive Problem Solving (APS) Team
Steve Chien (Team Lead),
M. Burl,
D. Mutz,
A. Stechert
In recognition of breakthrough advances in statistical learning
techniques enabling significant performance in adaptive systems for
automated planning and scheduling as well as optimization.
NOVA Award - Automated Rover Sequence Generation Demonstration Team
Steve A. Chien,
G. Rabideau (Team Lead),
P. Backes,
E. Chalfant,
K. Tso
In recognition of outstanding achievement in design and
demonstration of an advanced planning and scheduling system for
automation of rover command generation and validation.
NOVA Award - Multi-Rover Integrated Science Understanding System (MISUS) Team
Eric Mjolsness (Team Lead),
Tara Estlin,
Becky Castano,
Tobias Mann,
Alex Gray,
Gregg Rabideau,
Darren Mutz,
Steve Chien,
Ashley Davies
In recognition of outstanding achievement in design, implementation,
and demonstration of a distributed architecture for multi-rover
science exploration.
1998
Group Achievement Award - Automated Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Processor (ASIP) Development Team
Steve Chien,
Forest Fisher (Team Lead),
Ronald Greely,
Edisanter Lo
In recognition of outstanding achievement in design, implementation,
and deployment of an advanced planning system for science data
analysis.
Group Achievement Award - DATA-CHASER Automated Planning and Scheduling (DCAPS) System Development Team
Steve Chien,
Tobias Mann,
Gregg Rabideau (Team Lead),
Jason Willis
In recognition of outstanding achievement in design, implementation,
and deployment of an advanced planning and scheduling system for
mission operations automation.
NOVA Award - DCAPS Planning Systems Team
Steve A. Chien,
William C. Eggemeyer,
Tobias P. Mann,
Gregg R. Rabideau (Team Lead),
Jason Willis
In recognition of outstanding achievement in research and
development in the DCAPS planning system.
NOVA Award - Deep Space Terminal Prototype Automation Team
Steve A. Chien,
Tara A. Estlin,
Forest W. Fisher (Team Lead),
Raymond K. Lam,
Darren H. Mutz
In recognition of outstanding achievement in research and
development in Deep Space Terminal Prototype Automation.
NOVA Award - Russell Knight
In recognition of the Commitment to Excellence demonstrated by
Russell Knight working on improvements to the ASPEN planning and
scheduling system.
1997
NOVA Award - Gregg Rabideau
In recognition of the outstanding efforts made by Gregg Rabideau in
the development and deployment of automated planning and scheduling
technology.
NOVA Award - Ben Smith
In recognition of the outstanding leadership that Ben Smith has
demonstrated on the New Millenium Deep Space One Planning Engine
development task, solving complex technical problems and performing
many system engineering duties.
Award Descriptions
NASA Group Achievement Award
The Group Achievement Award is given in recognition of an
outstanding accomplishment that has been made through the
coordination of many individual efforts and has contributed
substantially to the accomplishment of the NASA mission. This
award may be used to recognize the accomplishments of either a
total government employee group or, as a team award, a group
comprised of both government and nongovernment personnel.
NOVA Award
The NOVA Award Program is designed to reward and recognize
JPL employees by acknowledging their contributions to the
achievement of the mission and goals of JPL and their
organizations.
