A Mission Management Framework for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
File(s)
Accepted version
Author(s)
Asmare, E
Gopalan, A
Sloman, M
Dulay, N
Lupu, E
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed for missions that are deemed dangerous or impractical to perform by humans in many military and disaster scenarios. UAVs in a team need to operate in sub-groups or independently to perform specific tasks, but still synchronise state information regularly and cope with intermittent communication failures as well as permanent UAV failures. This paper describes a failure management scheme that copes with failures, which may result in disjoint sub-networks within the team. A communication management protocol is proposed to control UAVs performing disconnected individual operations, while maintaining the team's structure by trying to ensure that all members of the mission rendezvous to communicate at intermittent intervals. The evaluation of the proposed approaches shows that the schemes are scalable and perform significantly better than similar centralised approaches.
Version
Accepted version
Editor(s)
Bonnin, JM
Giannelli, C
Magedanz, T
Date Issued
2009
Citation
MOBILE WIRELESS MIDDLEWARE, OPERATING SYSTEMS, AND APPLICATIONS, 2009, 7, pp.222-235
ISBN
978-3-642-01801-5
ISSN
1867-8211
Publisher
SPRINGER
Source Title
2nd International Mobilware Conference
Start Page
222
End Page
235
Journal / Book Title
MOBILE WIRELESS MIDDLEWARE, OPERATING SYSTEMS, AND APPLICATIONS
Volume
7
Copyright Statement
© 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg. © Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2009
Identifier
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1002205/AsmareMobilware09.pdf
Source
2nd International Mobilware Conference
Subjects
Autonomic management
collaborating autonomous vehicles
mission management
communication failure recovery
Start Date
2009-04-28
Finish Date
2009-04-29
Coverage Spatial
Berlin, GERMANY