Title :
Human-managed, hierarchical control of multiple mobile agents
Author :
Adams, Julie A. ; Paul, Richard
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper we describe MASC, a multiple agent supervisory control system which will provide a human supervisor with the capabilities to interact at various hierarchical levels with a multiple mobile agent system. This hierarchy of mediation allows the agents of the system to request assistance from the human when necessary. It also provides the supervisor with the ability to assume control of the agents when they enter a state from which they are incapable of self correction. We describe the levels of the mediation hierarchy, their implementations, and their system control implications. Our goal is to create a semi-autonomous system which successfully executes all feasible tasks
Keywords :
cooperative systems; hierarchical systems; mobile robots; user interfaces; MASC; human supervisor; human-managed hierarchical control; multiple agent supervisory control system; multiple mobile agents; semi-autonomous system; Control systems; Face; Humans; Man machine systems; Mediation; Mobile agents; Mobile robots; Robotics and automation; Supervisory control; Telerobotics;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1994., Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1968-0
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1994.411693