October 13, 2007

RIACS Researcher Supports Underwater Autonomy Demonstration

EUROPA-based Planner Enables Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Dr. Ari Jonsson, Sr. Scientist at RIACS, was part of a team of researchers from the NASA Ames Research Center who collaborated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to develop the Teleo- Reactive Executive (T-REX), an advanced software agent designed to support autonomous activity in underwater vehicles.

T-REX is based on the EUROPA planner, a planing application which was co-developed by RIACS and the NASA Intelligent Systems division and utilized as part of the MAPGEN planning and scheduling tool during the Mars Exploration Rover mission.

More information about this collaboration can be found on the following web sites:

MBARI
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