The Mobile Agents 2005 Field Test at MDRS: Planning for Exploration
William J. Clancey, Maaretn Sierhuis, Rick Alena, Daniel C. Berrios, John Dowding, Brent Garry, Jeff Graham, Robert L. Hirsh, Shannon Rupert, Abigail Semple, Ron vanHoof · NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA) · 2005
The Mars Society s Desert Research Station (MDRS) Rotation 38, April 3-17, 2005, was dedicated to field tests of NASA's Mobile Agents EVA communications system. MDRS provided an excellent, cost-effective venue for bringing together eighteen scientists and engineers from NASA Ames and Johnson Space Center, in an intensive two weeks of system integration and experiments. The Mobile Agents architecture and collaborative engineering methodology provides a flexible toolkit for configuring extravehicular activity (EVA) components, visualizing and formalizing EVA plans, and automating key supervisory functions.