IP Communication and Distributed Agents for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
Vincenzo Liberatore, Wyatt Seybert Newman, K. B. Bhasin · 2003
Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs) extend the reach of human activities and exploration, and are currently of utmost interest to NASA Mars missions and Earth Science enterprises. At present, fully autonomous machines are poorly equipped to survive in realistically complex and uncertain environments. However, incremental progress and useful intermediate results can be achieved through collaboration between local autonomy and remote supervision. In this paper, we submit that these objectives can be accomplished through the use of IP (Internet Protocol) coupled with • An appropriate design of the local controller, • Realand non-real-time middleware, and • Agent-based software. This paper describes our experience in the application of these methodologies for the remote supervision of intelligent machines.