Title
Network enabled cooperation of autonomous vehicles: A communications perspective
Author
Pinto, J.
Ribeiro, M.
Giodini, S.
L'Hoir, P.
Sartore, A.
Giron-Sierra, J.M.
Braga, J.
Sousa, J.
Publication year
2017
Abstract
In this paper we present the NECSAVE system which allows the control of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles under challenging environments by a single human operator by providing it with the desired highlevel objectives. The described software stack takes care of decomposing the high-level objectives into assignable tasks and (re)distributing the workload among team members according to their announced capabilities and eventual failures. NECSAVE is robust to system failures by supporting decentralized planning and adapting allocation in face of platform losses. The system was validated in multiple field trials where NECSAVE was used for the coordination of heterogeneous vehicles under challenged communication environments, namely the sea using radio (at surface) and acoustic communications (underwater).
Subject
2015 Observation, Weapon & Protection Systems
AS - Acoustics & Sonar
TS - Technical Sciences
Systems engineering
Underwater acoustics
Acoustic communications
Autonomous Vehicles
Communication environments
Decentralized planning
Heterogeneous vehicles
Human operator
Software stacks
System failures
Unmanned vehicles
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TNO identifier
788268
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN
9781509052783
Source
OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen. 19 June 2017 through 22 June 2017, 1-6
Document type
conference paper