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Continuum HPC / Edge / Embedded
Chaired by Thierry Collette, Director Information Science and Technology Group, Thales and Eric Monchalin, Vice-President, Head of Machine Intelligence, Eviden
The IRMA project - An illustration of the use of AI for space, from HPC data centres to onboard devices
By Adrien Girard, AI Project Manager and Business Developer, IRT St Exupery
The field of Earth observation has undergone rapid transformation in recent decades, with the advent of large satellite constellations. By 2023, the Copernicus programme alone has generated almost 30 terabytes of new data every day. However, the time taken to access the information remains relatively long, typically around 24 hours, due to the constraints of transmission to the ground and the processing load on the computing centres. The IRMA project, developed at the IRT Saint Exupéry, aims to drastically reduce these delays by transferring part of the data processing to orbit. Using the concrete example of this project, we will show how artificial intelligence is redefining the architecture of space systems. We will look at the challenges of optimising the distribution of processing between ground computing centres (HPC) and on-board devices on satellites, in order to design more autonomous and responsive systems
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Biography: Adrien Girard has been project manager at the Saint Exupéry Institute of Technological Research (IRT) since 2019. He has led several R&D projects aimed at boosting the autonomy and responsiveness of Earth observation constellations using artificial intelligence (AI). He manages a multidisciplinary team of around twenty experts developing advanced mission planning and image processing technologies. His team's work has led to several technological firsts in orbit in the field of on-board AI, including the first documented inference of a neural network on an FPGA in a space environment. Before joining the IRT, Adrien Girard spent ten years at Thales Alenia Space, where he headed a department specialising in the design of optical observation space systems and the evaluation of their imaging performance, including image processing chains. |
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