Unmanned and autonomous systems mission based test and evaluation
PerMIS '09 Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems
Evolutionary framework for test of autonomous systems
PerMIS '09 Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems
Testing and evaluation aspects of integration of unmanned air systems into the national air space
Proceedings of the 10th Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop
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Test and evaluation may be viewed as a technology enabler for the successful deployment of unmanned vehicles and robots in all their envisioned applications. It is however a challenging endeavor, considering that roboticists and developers are not used to thinking of test and evaluation as an integral component of robot development. Moreover, the community who has conducted test and evaluation up to this date does not possess the tools to cope with the growing complexity of unmanned and autonomous systems. This paper proposes a solution to one of the hardest problems in testing and evaluation of robots: test planning. The approach put forward relies on constructive simulation tools and on new techniques for searching in high dimensional spaces. The goal of the test planner is to generate a set of tests that make highly efficient use of resources to unveil weaknesses of the system under test. A secondary objective of the paper is to create reciprocal awareness between test and evaluation and robotics communities, who could benefit significantly from each other.