Agent-based Mission Modeling and Simulation

A simulation environment for agents is presented, enabling agent-based modeling and simulation of people, systems and robots in space exploration missions. The environment allows the analysis and design of mission operation work procedures, communications and interactions between people and systems, co-located or distributed on Earth and in space. The MODAT (Mission Operations Design and Analysis Toolkit) is the integration of NASA Ames’ Brahms multi-agent modeling and simulation environment, the Mission Simulation Toolkit (MST), a 3-D Visualization and Surface Reconstruction (Viz), plus JPL’s Virtual Mission Operations Framework (VMOF) into an agent-based end-to-end mission modeling and simulation environment. This paper describes a work in progress.