The technology will complement Stottler Henke's own advanced automation toolkits such as SimBionic and its MadCap real-time planning system used for controlling intelligent simulated agents in training, wargaming, and entertainment games. These toolkits are used by the U.S. Department of Defense and its contractors to develop and operate semi-autonomous systems such as unmanned vehicles as well as non-robotic software agents. The proposed framework for graphical authoring and visual debugging will provide NASA with a unified toolkit with enough out of the box functionality to reduce the time and manpower needed to build IDEs for NASA command languages. The use of the APIs here proposed will facilitate the reuse and adaptation of related tools created by different NASA groups, like the Planning and Scheduling group at NASA Ames.
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