Programming Networked Vehicle Systems using Dolphin - Field Tests at REP'17

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2018-05-31

Authors

Keila Lima (Author) FEUP; José Queirós Pinto (Author) FEUP; Eduardo Marques (Author) FCUP; João Tasso Sousa (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2018 OCEANS - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Oceans (OTO)

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Authenticus ID: P-00Q-0BR

DOI: 10.1109/oceanskobe.2018.8559474

Abstract (EN): The increasing availability and use of autonomous vehicles for real operational scenarios has led to the need for tools that allow human operators to interact with multiple systems effectively, taking into account their capabilities, limitations and environmental constraints. Multiple vehicles, deployed together in order to accomplish a common goal, impose a high burden on a human operator for specifying and executing coordinated behavior, particularly in mixed-initiative systems where humans are part of the control loop. In this paper, we describe experimental field tests for Dolphin, a domain-specific language that allows a single program to define the joint behaviour of multiple vehicles over a network. Using the language, it is possible to accomplish an orchestrated execution of single-vehicle tasks according to several patterns such as sequential, concurrent, or event-based program flow. With this aim, Dolphin has been integrated modularly with a software toolchain for autonomous vehicles developed by Laboratorio de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquatica (LSTS). The tests we describe made use of LSTS unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) at open sea during the 2017 edition of Rapid Environment Picture (REP), an annual exercise jointly organised by LSTS and the Portuguese Navy.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 5