• Commander's Check-In - Bill Clancey

Photo Diary
Rick Alena sets up MEX network (wireless computing) monitor in the lab	Mobile Agents ATVs to be used by geologists on simulated EVAs; Red is Rocky B; Green is Rocky C, which runs the KAoS server (provided by Jeff Bradshaw at UWF, Pensacola) for registering the distributed agents
Rob Hirsh (JSC Houston) makes good use of MDRS workbench for modifying ERA (robot) electronics	Susana Early (DeAnza graduate intern) and John Dowding (RIACS/NASA-Ames) prepare the Mobile Agents backpack computer for voice commanding
One of two specially outfitted Mobile Agents backpacks purchased from the Mars Society and adapted to carry a Minibook computer with camera and GPS peripherals.	John Ossenfort (Anthropology and East Asian studies BA, now working for a systems administration certificate at Foothill DeAnza) sets up the computing system for one of the Mobile Agents backpacks
Brent and Abby show their Nonin fingertip sensors measuring SpO2 (blood oxygen level) and heart rate, part of Sekou Crawford's research	Ron van Hoof (QSS/NASA-Ames), Brahms project lead programmer and HabCom for MDRS16 EVAs, prepares the HabCom computer, which runs his "personal agent" to help him monitor EVAs. Boris Brodsky (QSS/NASA-Ames) makes improvements to the HabCom model
MEX and ERA teams have converted the MDRS lower deck into a computer science lab
Sekou Crawford prepares the biovest on Brent Garry for the initial Mobile Agents validation tests (not conducted in simulation mode because of frequent reinitializations).	Sekou confirms that the biovest is sending data to the iPaq (using Bluetooth).