NASA's Mobile Agents Architecture: A Multi-Agent Workflow and Communication System for Planetary Exploration

NASA Ames’ Mobile Agents Architecture is a distributed agent-based architecture, which integrates diverse mobile entities in a wide-area wireless system for lunar and planetary surface operations. Software agents, implemented in the Brahms multiagent language, run in Brahms virtual machines onboard laptops for space suits, robots, and surface habitats. “Personal agents” support the habitat crew and surface astronauts, as well as the their robotic assistant. People communicate with their personal agents via a speech dialogue system and via a meeting-capture hyperlink database tool.