Towards programmable coordination of unmanned vehicle networks

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

Eduardo Marques (Author) Other; João Manuel R. S. Tavares (Author) FEUP; José Queirós Pinto (Author) FEUP; João Tasso Sousa (Author) FEUP; Martins F. (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: IFAC PAPERSONLINE

Pages: 256-261

15th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing

Ottawa, CANADA, MAY 11-13, 2015

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Authenticus ID: P-00K-43Q

DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacoi.2015.06.042

Abstract (EN): The use of unmanned vehicle networks for diverse applications is becoming widespread. It is generally hard to program unmanned vehicle networks as a "whole", however. The coordination of multiple vehicles requires careful planning through intricate human intervention, and a high degree of informality is implied in what concerns the specification of a "network program" for an application scenario. In this context, we have been developing a programming language for expressing global specifications of coordinated behavior in unmanned vehicle networks, the Networked Vehicles' Language (NVL). In this paper we illustrate the use of the language for a thermal pollution plume tracking scenario employing unmanned underwater vehicles.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 5