Evolutionary framework for test of autonomous systems

  • Authors:
  • Raj Subbu;Nikita Visnevski;Philipp Djang

  • Affiliations:
  • General Electric Global Research, Niskayuna, NY;General Electric Global Research, Niskayuna, NY;Army Research Lab, ARL SLAD IEPD, White Sands MR, NM

  • Venue:
  • PerMIS '09 Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A DoD mission and challenge is to enable a high percentage of autonomous vehicles in the warfighter fleet by 2015. These systems will need to display a high degree of autonomous capabilities. The capabilities of these autonomous systems must be acceptable to the warfighter and his/her logistical support structure. Autonomous systems of the future will need to be tested so their mission capabilities and robustness are predictable to the warfighter. The principal challenge therefore is the set of test strategies for these future autonomous systems. The goal of the test community is that these autonomous systems be broadly accepted to seamlessly operate either independently or as part of a human-in-the-loop system. Our goal is to develop an efficient intelligent test process that will enable the rapid introduction of autonomous systems on the battlefield. We propose a novel war game simulation-based multi-objective evolutionary test framework that combines the elements of testing an autonomous system's mission execution capabilities as a function of its innate capabilities and evolutionary computation.