NASA has turned to AI to help them develop, and build, more robust, lightweight components for its spacecraft of the future.
in Maryland has been using commercially available AI software to design specialized, bespoke parts, called "evolved structures," for its missions. They also look a little "out of this world."
“The algorithms do need a human eye,” McClelland said. “Human intuition knows what looks right, but left to itself, the algorithm can sometimes make structures too thin," he added. “We found it lowers risk. After these stress analyses, we find [that] the parts generated by the algorithm don’t have the stress concentrations you have with human designs. The stress factors are almost ten times lower than parts produced by an expert human,” McClelland explained.
“We have a couple of areas with very tricky design requirements,” Goddard physicist Peter Nagler said. “There were combinations of specific interfaces and exacting load specifications proving to be a challenge for our designers,” he added.
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