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Robotic Software Systems Group
Khaled S. Ali, PhD
Senior Member of Technical Staff
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Biography (more>>)
Khaled S. Ali is a member of the technical staff in the Robotic Software Systems group. He has worked on various space flight missions and research tasks since joining JPL in 1996.

Dr. Ali has participated in the Mars Polar Lander, Mars 01 Lander, and both the development and operations of the Mars Exploration Rover flight missions. He has also participated in a various robotics research tasks.

Dr. Ali is currently participating in operations for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission as a Rover Planner and as the Flight Software/Data Management Team Lead. He is currently leading the effort to develop and load a new version of the flight software.
Dr. Ali managed the development of the current version of the flight software (FSW) for the MER rovers, and the validation of four new technologies that were added to that version of the MER Flight Software.

Education (more>>)
Ph.D. in Computer Science (1999) from the Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. in Computer Science (1995) from the Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics (1992) from Vanderbilt University

Professional Experience (more>>)
  • MER Operations
  • CLARAty Robotic Software Architecture Development
  • Science Operations On Planetary Surfaces Developer
  • MER Flight Software Developer
  • Visual Target Tracking Integrator
  • Software Developer for Reconfigurable Robotic Surface Systems for All Terrain Exploration
  • Software Developer for Plant Micro-Propagation Arm
  • FSW Integration for Mars 01 Lander
  • MPL MVACS Robotic Arm Operator

Research Interests (more>>)
Flight software, human-robot interfaces, multi-agent rover navigation

Selected Publications (more>>)

Samad Hayati, Arturo Rankin, Won Kim, Patrick Leger, Steve Chien, and Khaled Ali, "Advanced Robotics Technology Infusion to the NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Project," 2007 IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, September 2007.

K. Ali, C. Vanelli, J. Biesiadecki, M. Maimone, Y. Cheng, A. San Martin, J. Alexander, "Attitude and Position Estimation on the Mars Exploration Rovers," Proc. of the 2005 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2005.

C. Vanelli and K. Ali, "High Gain Antenna Pointing on the Mars Exploration Rovers," Proc. of the 2005 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2005.

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