Integrating Artificial Immune, Neural and Endrocine Systems in Autonomous Sailing Robots

Abstract

Over the past three years we have developed a novel neural-endocrine system capable of being deployed on actual sailing robots. The initial project plan was to develop a combined neural-immune-endocrine system, but after staffing issues in the first year of the project, work was refocussed to focus on the neural endocrine aspects. Whilst the primary focus was developing a system capable of sailing deployment, along the way, we have developed and investigated the application of neural-endocrine on land-based robotic units as well as land based swarm systems. This allowed to us to continue the work on the neural-endocrine architecture whilst at the same time developing the sailing robotic system (as there was a large amount of time consumed with the more engineering side of work on the sailing robotic system). We feel this project has been a success and we list the highlights from the project.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 24, 2010
Accession Number
ADA532503

Entities

People

  • Jonathan I. Timmis

Organizations

  • University of York

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Deployment
  • Electric Power Production
  • Electrical Properties
  • Endocrine System
  • Energy
  • Energy Consumption
  • Engineering
  • Neural Networks
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Solar Energy
  • Solar Panels
  • Statistics
  • Sunlight
  • Wind Direction

Readers

  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control