In manned space operations today, the astronauts' activity schedules are preplanned and adjusted daily on Earth. We have developed the distributed collaboration and interaction (DO) multi-agent system to investigate automating aspects of human activity management. The DCI System assists (1) plan generation, (2) human activity tracking, (3) plan revision, and (4) mixed initiative interaction with the plan. We have deployed and evaluated the DCI system at JSC to assist control engineers in managing anomaly handling activities for automated life support systems. DCI operated round the clock for 20 months in the Water Research Facility at JSC. Using this software, we reduced anomaly response time by engineers from up to 10 hours in previous tests to under an hour. Based on this evaluation, we conclude that agent assistance for schedule management has potential to improve astronaut activity awareness and reduce response time in situations where crew are interrupted to handle anomalies.


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    Title :

    Multi-agent system for managing human activities in space operations


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    Publication date :

    2006-01-01


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    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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