Integrated Mission Specification and Task Allocation for Robot Teams - Testing and Evaluation

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2007Author
Ulam, Patrick D.
Endo, Yoichiro
Wagner, Alan
Arkin, Ronald C.
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This work presents the evaluation of two mission
specification and task allocation architectures. These architectures,
described in part 1 of this paper, present novel means with
which to integrate a case-based reasoning (CBR) mission planner
with contract net protocol (CNP) based task allocation. In the first
design, the CBR and runtime CNP architecture, the case-based
mission planner generates mission plans that support necessary
behaviors for CNP-based task allocation and execution. In the
second design, the CBR and pre-mission CNP architecture, task
allocation takes place during mission specification. The results
of an empirical evaluation of the CBR and runtime CNP across
three naval scenarios is described. Finally, we briefly describe
an earlier usability evaluation of the CBR and pre-mission CNP
architecture using goals, operators, methods, and selection rules
modeling.