The State-Operator Logic Machine (SOLON) Planner provides an architecture for effective real-time planning and replanning for an autonomous vehicle. The highlights of the system, which distinguish it from other AI-based planners that have been designed previously, are its hybrid application of state-driven control architecture and the use of both schematic representations and logic programming for the management of its knowledge base. SOLON is designed to provide multiple levels of planning for a single autonomous vehicle which is supplied with a skeletal, partially-specified mission plan at the outset of the vehicle's operations. This mission plan consists of a set of objectives, each of which will be decomposable by the planner into tasks. These tasks are themselves comparatively complex sets of actions which are executable by a conventional real-time control system which does not perform planning but which is capable of making adjustments or modifications to the provided tasks according to constraints and tolerances provided by the Planner. The current implementation of the SOLON is in the form of a real-time simulation of the Planner module of an Intelligent Vehicle Controller (IVC) on-board an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The simulation is embedded within a larger simulator environment known as ICDS (Intelligent Controller Development System) operating on a Symbolics 3645/75 computer.
SOLON: An Autonomous Vehicle Mission Planner
1987
12 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation , Management Practice , Architecture (Computers) , Artificial intelligence , Autonomy , Control systems design , Controllers , Distributed processing , Logic programming , Mission planning , Real time operation , Robotics , Underwater vehicles , Decision making , Digital computers , Knowledge , Modules , Simulation , Tasks , Reprints
SOLON: An autonomous vehicle mission planner
NTRS | 1987
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|Field trials of an energy-aware mission planner implemented on an autonomous surface vehicle
BASE | 2020
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