Lessons learned from autonomous sciencecraft experiment

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 51-58

  Chien, Steve ^a   Sherwood, Rob ^a   Tran, Daniel ^a   Cichy, Benjamin ^a   Rabideau, Gregg ^a   Castaño, Rebecca ^a   Davies, Ashley ^a   Mandl, Dan ^b   Frye, Stuart ^b   Trout, Bruce ^b   D'Agostino, Jeff ^b   Shulman, Seth ^b   Boyer, Darrell ^c   Hayden, Sandra ^d   Sweet, Adam ^d   Christa, Scott ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Interface and Control Systems   (Canada)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELIBERATIVE PLANNING; SNOW MELT;

DATA REDUCTION; SOFTWARE AGENTS; VOLCANOES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644803987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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