Our Mission

Welcome!

If you are interested in joining the ISTC, please complete a Technical Committee Nomination form (you must already be an active AIAA member and logged into the site to submit a form): https://www.aiaa.org/home/get-involved/committees-groups/technical-committees/committee-nomination-form

Chair Information:	ISTC Officers:
Justin Bradley, jmbradley@ncsu.edu	* Co-chair: Natasha Neogi * Chair-elect: Dani Selva * Secretary: Isaac Weintraub

The Mission of the Intelligent Systems Technical Committee is fourfold:

Advance basic principles and fundamental understanding of Intelligent Systems across the full spectrum of aerospace applications through technical publications, technical conferences, discipline working groups, and educational outreach.
Expand the horizon for aerospace applications of Intelligent Systems through technical discovery, technology and methodology advancements, technical assessments, outreach and advocacy.
Provide professional development and networking opportunities to TC members and others involved with conception, design, development, testing, deployment, operations, maintenance, and management of intelligent aerospace systems.
Define, engage and explore interdisciplinary interfaces through inter-TC, and inter-professional initiatives, and the organization of special technical conference sessions, tutorials, working groups and study groups.

The scope of the Intelligent System Technical Committee includes:

Civil, commercial and military aerospace systems, and those ground systems that are part of development, test, or operations of aerospace systems.
Technologies that enable safe, cost-efficient, and reliable operation of highly autonomous complex aerospace, land, and sea systems, or collaborative synthetic-human agent teams.

Intelligent Systems technology areas include, but are not limited to:

Data fusion	Reasoning and Learning Techniques	Evolutionary (genetic) algorithms	Expert systems	Fuzzy logic
Human-machine interaction	Intelligent and adaptive control	Integrated Communication and Navigation
Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking	Robotics	In-Orbit Servicing	Intelligent data/image processing
Knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering		Machine learning techniques	Model-based reasoning
Neural networks	Planning and scheduling algorithms		Qualitative simulation

Every member of the ISTC has the following ongoing responsibilities:

Express an interest in activities of ISTC.
Be responsive to emails or phone calls from the TC Chair and the chairs of the sub-committees of which they are members.
Take part in, and actively support the projects of, at least two sub-committees.
Participate actively in TC-wide initiatives (such as Infotech@Aerospace Conference support and JAIS Special Issue paper reviews).
Commit to being physically present at a minimum of one TC meeting per year and to try to dial into meetings they cannot attend.
Promote the TC’s activities to their coworkers and colleagues who might have an interest and be on the lookout for opportunities to promote IS technology and applications.
Report any concerns regarding their participation in the TC or a sub-committee to the TC and/or sub-committee chair.

The ISTC is divided into nine subcommittees:

For information on the various ISTC subcommittees and current members, please see the Members and Subcommittees page!