Teams of human experts are often used to cooperatively solve complex and dynamic problems. In a similar way, Soar Technology creates similar teams of highly capable agents to automate human tasks, augment human abilities, and interact with expert humans to help manage, simplify and solve complex problems.
We are currently applying cooperative agent teams to the development of adaptive user interfaces for command and control of robotic systems and information management and visualization. Key to making these systems truly useful is a well-defined structure for permissions, obligations, and prohibitions (collectively referred to as deontics), a robust agent communication infrastructure for distributed problem solving, and the ability to explain their reasoning and behavior.
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The Future of C3
An overall goal of the Future Combat System program is to transform the current military structure, operations, strategies and tactics to create a force that is more responsive, deployable, agile, versatile, lethal, survivable, and sustainable. One implementation strategy to achieve this goal is to split the roles of battlefield entities to create smaller, more specialized platforms that will operate cooperatively in a much more effective manner than currently possible. This will include many battlefield platforms, including: manned vehicles, direct fire vehicles, indirect fire, beyond-line of sight (BLOS) vehicles, sensor vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and other layered sensors such as satellites. A key challenge in realizing this vision is developing the necessary communication and coordination techniques to link these platforms in a manner accessible and manageable by field commanders.
Human-like Agent TeamsThe CIANC3 project is exploring and developing software techniques and technologies that allow human commanders to control the robot teams in a similar manner to how they command human teams, that is, in the language of the military, not the language of robotic control theory. In addition, it is addressing command and control for higher echelons and for cooperative actions across echelons.
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