A plan-based mission control center for autonomous vehicles

  • Authors:
  • Gary Look;Howard Shrobe

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Teams of autonomous vehicles (AVs) carry out missions in a number of fields such as space exploration and search-and-rescue. However, human supervision is still required to monitor the status of the team to ensure that the mission is being carried out as planned. To reduce information overload on these supervisors, we have developed an application, the Mission Control Center (MCC), that aggregates and abstracts status information from AVs using a plan-based view of the mission. Using this model, the MCC presents mission status at the level of goals and plans and directs operator attention to the AVs that require the most attention.