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Task-based Guidance of Multiple UAV Using Cognitive Automation

Authors:
Johann Uhrmann
Axel Schulte

Keywords: task-based guidance; goal-driven behaviour; artificial cognititive units; artificial cognition; level of automation

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.

Pages: 47 to 52

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: September 25, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-61208-155-7

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from September 25, 2011 to September 30, 2011