TALOS

For this challenge, we invite you to become "virtual contributors" to the Asteroid Grand Challenge and develop a hypothetical method, concept note or simple prototype that demonstrates how Machine Learning could be used to help us avoid the same fate as the dinosaurs.

WHY TALOS?

In Greek mythology, Talos or Talon as a giant automaton made of bronze to protect Europe in Crete from pirates and invaders. Now the space project Talos protects us from the neos.

SOLUTION

In the world the people learn to survive the dangers around us creating solutions for each hazard presented, how this is possible? closely studying the environment, adapting, creating survival techniques, based on the study of it we build tools to survive.

TALOS is a prototype project based on virtual reality 4d motion, which makes a space simulation, this simulation includes physical laws that govern the movement of bodies in space (Kepler's laws, linear velocity, angular velocity, inertia, gravitational attraction, angular time), you can also simulate turbulence and dust that may have asteroids depending on the type of material from which they are made, user have the data paths of the NEOs based on the current data recorded on official pages of NASA. User application, according to the path of the simulation may detect, calculate the trajectory, characterize and mitigate if there is the danger of impact.

For the project were created a 3D prototypes of a space station and spaceships. the user will be immersed in virtual reality with a 4D simulator chair, the application can be used without the chair, but the 4D creates a higher experience for the user, he can move the spaceship for the target required in the mission (detect, create path characterize or mitigate), the data collected in the mission and the path will be published in the web application.

THEORETICAL CONCEPTS

DETECT NEOs

How can we detect NEOs?, the concept about this mission is to identify NEOs which may represent a danger to Earth, NASA currently has sentinels spaceships searching NEOs, relying on the information they collect about NEOs, the app can set a simulation environment of space with virtual reality space and those NEOs in real time.

NEO'S TRACK MARK

How do we follow the path of the NEOs?, having the basic idea of determine or calculate the trajectories of the NEOs in time, this to determine a future path that would follow such NEOs way to control dangerous acts future.

NEO'S CHARACTERISE

How can we characterize?, NEOs mission is to obtain information about a NEO, as we do, we have prototype ships called "sentinels" that are responsible for studying the NEO object.

MITIGATE NEO'S

The main objective of the challenge is mitigate or prevent and act against possible collision of a near-Earth orbit NEO, there are several methods of mitigation in terms of NEOs as:

Gravity Tractor (Tractor gravity)

Kinetic impactor (Impactor Kinetic)

Blast Deflection (deflection Explosion)

TALOS applies the method of Kinectic Impactor, as noted above, the project has a spaceport and prototypes of ships, such craft are implemented for use of the method, this method is to produce an explosion in the NEO in danger of collision with planet Earth in such a way to avoid such colisión.

COMMUNICATE INFORMATION ABOUT NEO'S

How can we communicate about NEOS?, the TALOS project proposes a solution to this, by providing several independent contributors the option to increase / provide information about observations, findings and contributions on NEOS studied.

ASTEROID NEOS LABORATORY

TALOS, supporting the Asteroid Grand Challenge Lab, in order to contribute to NASA function to add information about new asteroids discovered independently and based on the information obtained to calculate the trajectory of such NEOs, this functionality in the project could be extended to more options such as uploading information on the characteristics of the NEOs, exchange information between different contributors interacting with each other for better feedback in the study and search NEOs.