SBIR 95-1 SOLICITATION
PROJECT SUMMARY
Proposal Number:
Project Title:
INTELLIGENT & VIRTUAL REALITY AGENTS FOR ROBOTICS PLANNING
Technical Abstract:
This research facilitates on-line planning of robotics and teleoperation
tasks for NASA space missions. It accomplishes this by software agent
technology which provides multimodal and intelligent interactions in a virtual
reality environment over the World-Wide Web. The technology will be suitable
for many other planning and near-realtime operations that use World-Wide Web.
The combined behavior of the resulting software agents will meet the needs
of NASA telescience applications for multiple investigators to visualize
scientific data and control planetary autonomous systems. The following
capabilities will be developed:
(1) generating 3D models of the remote environment based on camera images
and other sensory data,
(2) sharing and visualizing the collected data and motion of a remote
autonomous system,
(3) coordinated planning with requests from multiple investigators for
controlling the planetary autonomous system, and
(4) detecting erroneous inputs and requests and recovering from these errors.
The Phase I effort includes demonstrating the feasibility of employing two
emerging and promising Web technologies: 1) the Virtual Reality Modeling
Language and 2) the Java programming language, for modeling and visualizing
3D objects and creating distributed software agents.
Potential Commercial Applications:
Commercial benefits are related to (a) facilitating the performance of complex
tasks that require intelligence and virtual reality, (b) allowing multiple
individuals to work together, and (c) providing sophisticated user interfaces
for teleoperation and telepresence, over the Internet.
The first benefit will spawn a new generation of Web Browsers and Home Page
authoring tools. The commercial impact of the second benefit will be in a new
type of remote learning and teleconferencing. The final benefit will have
significant value in medicine and entertainment.
Name and Address of Offeror:
SoHaR Incorporated
8421 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 201
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) &
Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) Programs
Electronic Management System (EMS)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Hu, Hughes STX.
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Updated: Feb. 7, 1996