Software Productivity of Field Experiments Using the Mobile Agents Open Architecture with Workflow Interoperability

Author

Clancey, William J. ; Lowry, Michael ; Nado, Robert ; Sierhuis, Maarten

Author_Institution

Intell. Syst. Div., NASA Ames Res. Center, Mountain View, CA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

2-4 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

92

Abstract

We analyzed a series of ten systematically developed surface exploration systems that integrated a variety of hardware and software components. Design, development, and testing data suggest that incremental buildup of an exploration system for long-duration capabilities is facilitated by an open architecture with appropriate-level APIs, specifically designed to facilitate integration of new components. This improves software productivity by reducing changes required for reconfiguring an existing system.

Keywords

aerospace computing; application program interfaces; mobile agents; open systems; reconfigurable architectures; service-oriented architecture; workflow management software; API; hardware component; mobile agent open architecture; software component; software productivity; surface exploration systems; system reconfiguration; testing data; workflow interoperability; Computer architecture; Hardware; Mobile agents; Monitoring; Robot kinematics; Software; Open architecture; exploration systems; interoperability; multiagent systems; service-oriented architecture; workflow automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT), 2011 IEEE Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Palo Alto, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0712-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0713-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMC-IT.2011.10

Filename

6007779