Specification Languages and Distributed Control Schemes for Teams of Unmanned Vehicles

Abstract

In this project, we developed high-level, human-like specification languages for robotic motion tasks and computational frameworks for automatic synthesis of robot control and communication strategies from such specifications. Central to our approach are finite abstractions, which allow for the use of (adapted) temporal logics as specification languages, tools from formal verification resembling model checking for analysis and control, and techniques inspired from synchronization in concurrency theory for synthesis of communication strategies. In short, the results of this project can be grouped into: (1) computational tools for abstraction and temporal logic analysis and control of one dynamical system and (2) computational frameworks for automatic synthesis of control and communication strategies for a robotic team from global specifications given as temporal logic statements over a set of environmental service requests.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 03, 2012
Accession Number
ADA577491

Entities

People

  • Calin Belta

Organizations

  • Boston University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Automata
  • Computations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Hybrid Systems
  • Language
  • Linear Systems
  • Mathematics
  • Motion Planning
  • Probability
  • Robotics
  • Robots
  • Students
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computer Science.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control