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Clancey, William J.1, Sierhuis, Maarten, Alena, Rick, Crawford, Sekou, Dowding, John, Graham, Jeff, Kaskiris, Charis, Tyree, Kim S., and van Hoof, Ron (2003)

The Mobile Agents Integrated Field Test: Mars Desert Research Station April 2003

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In: On To Mars 2, edited by Zubrin, RM, and Crossman, F. Collector's Guide Publishing Inc.

The Mobile Agents model-based, distributed architecture, which integrates diverse components in a system for lunar and planetary surface operations, was extensively tested in a two-week field “technology retreat” at the Mars Society’s Desert Research Station (MDRS) during April 2003. More than twenty scientists and engineers from three NASA centers and two universities refined and tested the system through a series of incremental scenarios. Agent software, implemented in runtime Brahms, processed GPS, health data, and voice commands—monitoring, controlling and logging science data throughout simulated EVAs with two geologists. Predefined EVA plans, modified on the fly by voice command, enabled the Mobile Agents system to provide navigation and timing advice. Communications were maintained over five wireless nodes distributed over hills and into canyons for 5 km; data, including photographs and status was transmitted automatically to the desktop at mission control in Houston. This paper describes the system configurations, communication protocols, scenarios, and test results.

1 - NASA/Ames Research Center, Computational Science Division, MS 269-3, Moffett Field, California 943055, and Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL email or homepage

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by Jean Lagarde — last modified 2006-10-22 22:59 This material is declared a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. This paper was first presented at the Mars Society 2003 Convention and published in the Proceedings of the Florida AI Conference, CD-ROM, 2004.
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