Task-based Guidance of Multiple UAV Using Cognitive Automation
Johann Uhrmann, Axel Schulte · 2011
Abstract—This article discusses different dimensions of automation in the integration of multiple, detached, unmanned sensor platforms into a military helicopter scenario. Artificial cognitive units implement parts of human-like knowledge-rich task execution aboard a highly automated vehicle. Artificial cognition, being the method used, allows task execution beyond pre-scripted and predefined instruction sets, utilizing reasoning about the current situation to support goal-driven behaviour during task execution instead. The tasks assigned by the human operator are formulated at an abstraction level that might as well be used to task human subordinates within a mission. Like human subordinates, the UAV uses its cognitive capabilities to adapt task execution to the currently known situation including knowledge about the task assignments of teammates. Keywords – Task-based guidance; goal-driven behaviour; artificial cognititive units; artificial cognition; level of automation. I.