Intelligent Response and Interaction System (IRIS)

Completed TRL 4 (started at 3, targeting 4)

Description

The Intelligent Response and Interaction System (IRIS) project aims to accelerate human exploration and support crew autonomy technologies by developing an intuitive, dialogue-based, voice crew assistant. IRIS would serve as a central communication hub between crew and spacecraft/ground systems, facilitating crew logistics and procedures. Crew Assistance technologies will be an essential element to the upcoming Lunar exploration missions. Operations and training burdens must be minimized, in order to meet Lunar & Mars challenges and compressed schedule.

Benefits

Intelligent Response and Interaction System (IRIS) will be useful in providing support crew autonomy through various applications, including, Hands-free Conversational Procedure Assistant, Auxiliary Spacecraft Systems Command & Control and Querying of Mission Logistics and Timeline Management.

Details

Technology area	Flight Computing and Avionics > Avionics Systems and Subsystems > Low-Power Embedded Computer Systems
Program	Center Innovation Fund: JSC CIF (JSC CIF)
Lead organization	Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Start date	2020-10-01
End date	2021-09-30

Project contacts

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Aly Shehata — aly.shehata@nasa.gov

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