Management Architecture and Mission Specification for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
Asmare Ea, Naranker Dulay, Kim H, E. Lupu, Morris S. Sloman · 2006
This paper proposes the architecture for a Self Managed Cell (SMC) for managing both individual and teams of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UXVs). We outline how to specify a mission in terms of roles for UXVs, the tasks to be performed by a role and the policies for managing tasks. A mission specification also includes role assignment policies for validating credentials and capabilities of a UXV joining the SMC and authorisation policies defining what interactions are permitted between roles or what services a role can access. The concepts are illustrated using a reconnaissance scenario.