Daily Updates

8/27/02

Hi professor,

Are recent writing as been posted on our website
http://ants.ytivarg.org/Writing.php just so you know.  Today we met with
mike for an hour to define how we will interact with his simulation.  We
made some progress.  We decided that commands to the spacecraft hardware
will take the following form (Timestamp (Device_Id Command) [args] ).

It seems now that Mike has abstracted our interaction with the hardware
such that what we orginally saw as actions are more like tasks.

As far as connecting to his simulation, it looks like we need to make a
Java-SSH client.  Goddard's security is fairly strict about having open
ports on their servers.  We have found source code for existing Java-SSH
clients.  Hopefully, we will be able to modify the code to suit our needs.

The minutes for todays meeting with mike have been posted on the web:
http://ants.ytivarg.org/Meetings

We also attended this weeks agent-group meeting.  We introduced ourselves
and gave them summary of what are project is about.  They provided us with
some good feedback about our design and presentation.

ANTS2