Integrated Mission Specification and Task Allocation for Robot Teams - Part 2: Testing and Evaluation

Abstract

This work presents the evaluation of two mission specification and task allocation architectures. These architectures, described in part 1 of this paper, present novel means with which to integrate a case-based reasoning (CBR) mission planner with contract net protocol (CNP) based task allocation. In the first design, the CBR and runtime-CNP architecture, the case-based mission planner generates mission plans that support necessary behaviors for CNP-based task allocation and execution. In the second design, the CBR and premission-CNP architecture, task allocation takes place during mission specification. The results of an empirical evaluation of the CBR and runtime-CNP across three naval scenarios is described. Finally, we briefly describe an earlier usability evaluation of the CBR and premission-CNP architecture using goals, operators, methods, and selection rules modeling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA457295

Entities

People

  • Alan Wagner
  • Patrick Ulam
  • Ronald Arkin
  • Yochiro Endo

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Command And Control
  • Contracts
  • Control
  • Fuel Consumption
  • Interception
  • Intervals
  • Mobility
  • Robots
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • Target Tracking
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Surface Vehicles
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction