Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles

  • Authors:
  • Edmund H. Durfee;Patrick G. Kenny;Karl C. Kluge

  • Affiliations:
  • EECS Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.;EECS Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.;EECS Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Robots - Special issue on autonomous agents
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Fielding robots in complex applications can stress thehuman operators responsible for supervising them, particularlybecause the operators might understand the applications but notthe details of the robots. Our answer to this problem has beento insert agent technology between the operator and the roboticplatforms. In this paper, we motivate the challenges indefining, developing, and deploying the agent technology thatprovides the glue in the application of tasking unmanned groundvehicles in a military setting. We describe how a particularsuite of architectural components serves equally well to supportthe interactions between the operator, planning agents, androbotic agents, and how our approach allows autonomy duringplanning and execution of a mission to be allocated among thehuman and artificial agents. Our implementation anddemonstrations (in real robots and simulations) of ourmulti-agent system shows significant promise for the integrationof unmanned vehicles in military applications.