Automated Decision Making Group – Publications and Media
Publications
2025
| Edward Balaban, Zachary Booth, Evan Astle, Michelle Ho, Hailey Warner, Grace Kim, Duncan Eddy, Somrita Banerjee, Joshua Ott, Mark Shirley, Kevin Bradner, Anthony Colaprete SHERPA — An Artificial Intelligence System for Mission Planning and Decision Support. 18th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2025) |
| Grace Ra Kim, Hailey Warner, Duncan Eddy, Evan Astle, Zachary Booth, Edward Balaban, and Mykel J. Kochenderfer Adaptive Science Operations in Deep Space Missions Using Offline Belief State Planning 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), 2025 |
| Grace Ra Kim, Hailey Warner, Duncan Eddy, Evan Astle, Zachary Booth, Edward Balaban, Mykel J. Kochenderfer Adaptive Science Operations in Deep Space Missions Using Robust Precomputed Autonomy 2nd Space Robotics Workshop (SRW), IEEE SMC-IT/SCC 2025 |
2024
| Joshua Ott, Edward Balaban, Mykel J. Kochenderfer Trajectory Optimization for Adaptive Informative Path Planning with Multimodal Sensing. 2024 10th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT) |
| Somrita Banerjee, Edward Balaban, Mark Shirley, Kevin Bradner, Marco Pavone Contingency Planning Using Bi-level Markov Decision Processes for Space Missions. 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference |
2023
| Joshua Ott, Edward Balaban, Mykel J. Kochenderfer Sequential Bayesian Optimization for Adaptive Informative Path Planning with Multimodal Sensing 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |
2018
| Edward Balaban, Tomer Arnon, Mark H. Shirley, Saylor F. Brisson, Alex Gao A System Health Aware POMDP Framework for Planetary Rover Traverse Evaluation and Refinement 2018 AIAA Information Systems–AIAA Infotech@Aerospace |
Presentations
2026
| Zachary Booth Building Production Desktop GUIs in Julia at NASA with Dear ImGui and Mirage.jl JuliaCon 2026 |
2024
| Balaban, E.; Banerjee, S.; Booth, Z.; Ott, J.; Astle, E.; Shirley, M.; Bradner, K.; Colaprete, A.; Viper Science Team; Viper Mission Systems Team; Viper Mission Systems Engineering Team System Health Enabled Realtime Planning Advisor (SHERPA) and Its Use in Lunar Exploration Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group |
2022
| Mark Shirley, Edward Balaban An Overview of Mission Planning for the VIPER Rover SpaceOps 2022 Mission Planning Workshop |
| Shirley, M.; Balaban, E.; Colaprete, A.; Elphic, R. C.; Sanchez, H.; Falcone, L.; Beyer, R.; Banerjee, S.; Bradner, K. VIPER Traverse Planning 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference |
Media
2024
| VIPER’s AI Assistant Aerospace America |
2023