BrahmsVE: Proof of Concept for Human/Agent Intelligent Augmentation

This proposal seeks to extend the existing BrahmsVE environment to support a semi-autonomous intelligent agent operating inside a 3D virtual world on the web. We are calling this agent the Personal Bot Assistant (PBA) and it will be paired with an agent-astronaut driven either by the user or by the Brahms model-based simulator. The PBA should allow us to provide a test bed for one of the canonical scenarios of human-centered computing research: the interaction and task sharing between a human and a mobile agent. Once completed, the PBA-astronaut simulation will be subjected to a virtual test fixture within a re-creation of both the FMARS/Haughton-Mars Project surface habitat and the International Space Station.