Aerospace
Systems engineered for environments with no margin for error.
Spacecraft and flight systems don't get a second attempt mid-mission. Grounded in electrical engineering and computer systems design alongside decision science, our aerospace work spans knowledge-based expert systems and communication-management architectures developed with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA · JPL
Spacecraft expert systems
EE + CS
Full hardware-software systems design
45+ yrs
Applied decision science
The challenge
- Communication windows and bandwidth are limited.Decision systems need to operate effectively with constrained, delayed, or intermittent communication back to ground control.
- Failure margins are effectively zero.Systems have to be validated to a standard most commercial software never approaches.
- Hardware and software have to be designed as one system.Aerospace problems rarely separate cleanly along a software/hardware boundary.
How we work
- Discovery & assessmentMap the operational constraints — communication windows, computing limits, failure tolerances — before any system design begins.
- Architecture & designDesign knowledge-based expert systems and decision architectures suited to autonomous or semi-autonomous operation under those constraints.
- Build & integrationBuild across the hardware and software boundary as a single engineering effort, drawing on a foundation in electrical engineering and systems design.
- Deployment & handoffDeliver with the testbed validation and documentation aerospace programs require.
Relevant track record
Work in this sector, not adjacent to it.
Spacecraft expert systems
Constructed experimental testbeds evaluating knowledge-based expert systems for spacecraft communication management with NASA and JPL.
Electrical engineering foundation
A B.S. in Electrical Engineering underpins systems and hardware design work alongside the computer science and AI research.