Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TatianaAT.pdf: 1928197 bytes, checksum: cf7bdfef2369940a65a9808cc8556802 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-04-19 / The advent of the Internet stimulated the appearance of several services. An example is the communication ones present in the users day-by-day. Services as chat and e-mail reach an increasing number of users. This fact is turning the Net a powerful communication medium. The following work explores the use of communication conventional services into the Net infrastructure. We introduce the concept of communication social protocols applied to a shared virtual environment. We argue that communication tools have to be adapted to the Internet potentialities. To do that, we approach some theories of the Communication area and its applicability in a virtual environment context. We define multi-agent architecture to support the offer of these services, as well as, a software and hardware platform to support the accomplishment of experiments using Mixed Reality. Finally, we present the obtained results, experiments and products / O advento da Internet estimulou o aparecimento de diversos servi?os vinculados a Rede. Um exemplo s?o os servi?os de comunica??o cada vez mais presentes no dia-a-dia dos usu?rios da Rede. Servi?os como salas de bate-papo e correio eletr?nico atingem um n?mero crescente de usu?rios tornando a Rede um poderoso meio de comunica??o da atualidade. Nesse contexto, surge a preocupa??o de como melhor adaptar os servi?os de comunica??o convencionais ? infra-estrutura da Rede. O trabalho seguinte introduz o conceito de protocolos sociais de comunica??o aplicada a um ambiente virtual compartilhado na Rede. Discutimos ferramentas de comunica??o voltadas as necessidades e potencialidades do meio de comunica??o digital, abordando v?rias teorias da ?rea de Comunica??o e sua aplicabilidade num contexto de ambientes virtuais. Para tanto, definimos uma arquitetura multi-agentes para suportar o oferecimento desses servi?os, bem como, uma plataforma de software e hardware para suportar a realiza??o de experimentos utilizando Realidade Mista. Por fim, apresentamos os resultados de experimentos realizados e dos produtos obtidos com a realiza??o deste trabalho

Autonomous reconnaissance missions are called for in extreme environments, as well as in potentially hazardous (e.g., the theatre, disaster-stricken areas, etc.) or inaccessible operational areas (e.g., planetary surfaces, space). Such future missions will require increasing degrees of operational autonomy, especially when following up on transient events. Operational autonomy encompasses: (1) Automatic characterization of operational areas from different vantages (i.e., spaceborne, airborne, surface, subsurface); (2) automatic sensor deployment and data gathering; (3) automatic feature extraction including anomaly detection and region-of-interest identification; (4) automatic target prediction and prioritization; (5) and subsequent automatic (re-) deployment and navigation of robotic agents. This paper reports on progress towards several aspects of autonomous (CISR)-I-4 systems, including: Caltech-patented and NASA award-winning multi-tiered mission paradigm, robotic platform development (air, ground, water-based), robotic behavior motifs as the building blocks for autonomous telecommanding, and autonomous decision making based on a Caltech-patented framework comprising sensor-data-fusion (feature-vectors), anomaly detection (clustering and principal component analysis), and target prioritization (hypothetical probing).