The increasingly complex battlefield environment requests much closer connection in a team having both manned and unmanned aerial vehicles(MAVs and UAVs). This special heterogeneous team structure causes demands for e...The increasingly complex battlefield environment requests much closer connection in a team having both manned and unmanned aerial vehicles(MAVs and UAVs). This special heterogeneous team structure causes demands for effective organizational structure design solutions. Implementing adjustable autonomy in the organizational structure, the expected evaluation function is established based on the physical resource, intelligent resource, network efficiency, network vulnerability and task execution reliability. According to the above constraints, together with interaction latency, decision-making information processing capacity, and decision-making latency, we aim to find a preferential organizational structure. The proposed organizational structure includes cooperative relationships, supervisory control relationships, and decision-making authorization relationships. In addition,by considering the influence on the intelligent support capabilities and the task execution reliability created by adjustable autonomy, it helps to build the proposed organizational structure designed with certain degree of flexibility to deal with the potential changes in the unpredictable battlefield environment. Simulation is conducted to confirm our design to be valid. And the method is still valid under different battlefield environments and interventions.展开更多
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to propose a layered adjustable autonomy(LAA)as a dynamically adjustable autonomy model for a multi-agent system.It is mainly used to efficiently manage humans’and agents’shared...Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to propose a layered adjustable autonomy(LAA)as a dynamically adjustable autonomy model for a multi-agent system.It is mainly used to efficiently manage humans’and agents’shared control of autonomous systems and maintain humans’global control over the agents.Design/methodology/approach–The authors apply the LAA model in an agent-based autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)system.The UAV system implementation consists of two parts:software and hardware.The software part represents the controller and the cognitive,and the hardware represents the computing machinery and the actuator of the UAV system.The UAV system performs three experimental scenarios of dance,surveillance and search missions.The selected scenarios demonstrate different behaviors in order to create a suitable test plan and ensure significant results.Findings–The results of the UAV system tests prove that segregating the autonomy of a system as multidimensional and adjustable layers enables humans and/or agents to perform actions at convenient autonomy levels.Hence,reducing the adjustable autonomy drawbacks of constraining the autonomy of the agents,increasing humans’workload and exposing the system to disturbances.Originality/value–The application of the LAA model in a UAV manifests the significance of implementing dynamic adjustable autonomy.Assessing the autonomy within three phases of agents run cycle(taskselection,actions-selection and actions-execution)is an original idea that aims to direct agents’autonomy toward performance competency.The agents’abilities are well exploited when an incompetent agent switches with a more competent one.展开更多
The year has started off with a nervous shudder of paranoia amidst steep market tumbles and the recent depreciation of the yuan against the U.S.dollar,raising doubts of the stability of China＇s financial market. Rest...The year has started off with a nervous shudder of paranoia amidst steep market tumbles and the recent depreciation of the yuan against the U.S.dollar,raising doubts of the stability of China＇s financial market. Rest assured, the effective exchange rate of the yuan maintains stable, and there are a multitude of factors buttressing the Chinese currency in the medium and long term.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61305133)the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(2016ZC53020)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(3102017jg02015)
文摘The increasingly complex battlefield environment requests much closer connection in a team having both manned and unmanned aerial vehicles(MAVs and UAVs). This special heterogeneous team structure causes demands for effective organizational structure design solutions. Implementing adjustable autonomy in the organizational structure, the expected evaluation function is established based on the physical resource, intelligent resource, network efficiency, network vulnerability and task execution reliability. According to the above constraints, together with interaction latency, decision-making information processing capacity, and decision-making latency, we aim to find a preferential organizational structure. The proposed organizational structure includes cooperative relationships, supervisory control relationships, and decision-making authorization relationships. In addition,by considering the influence on the intelligent support capabilities and the task execution reliability created by adjustable autonomy, it helps to build the proposed organizational structure designed with certain degree of flexibility to deal with the potential changes in the unpredictable battlefield environment. Simulation is conducted to confirm our design to be valid. And the method is still valid under different battlefield environments and interventions.
文摘Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to propose a layered adjustable autonomy(LAA)as a dynamically adjustable autonomy model for a multi-agent system.It is mainly used to efficiently manage humans’and agents’shared control of autonomous systems and maintain humans’global control over the agents.Design/methodology/approach–The authors apply the LAA model in an agent-based autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)system.The UAV system implementation consists of two parts:software and hardware.The software part represents the controller and the cognitive,and the hardware represents the computing machinery and the actuator of the UAV system.The UAV system performs three experimental scenarios of dance,surveillance and search missions.The selected scenarios demonstrate different behaviors in order to create a suitable test plan and ensure significant results.Findings–The results of the UAV system tests prove that segregating the autonomy of a system as multidimensional and adjustable layers enables humans and/or agents to perform actions at convenient autonomy levels.Hence,reducing the adjustable autonomy drawbacks of constraining the autonomy of the agents,increasing humans’workload and exposing the system to disturbances.Originality/value–The application of the LAA model in a UAV manifests the significance of implementing dynamic adjustable autonomy.Assessing the autonomy within three phases of agents run cycle(taskselection,actions-selection and actions-execution)is an original idea that aims to direct agents’autonomy toward performance competency.The agents’abilities are well exploited when an incompetent agent switches with a more competent one.
文摘The year has started off with a nervous shudder of paranoia amidst steep market tumbles and the recent depreciation of the yuan against the U.S.dollar,raising doubts of the stability of China＇s financial market. Rest assured, the effective exchange rate of the yuan maintains stable, and there are a multitude of factors buttressing the Chinese currency in the medium and long term.
