Collaborative planning

Collaborative planning

Mission plan adaptation can be extended to multiple platforms.

The potential benefits of multi-vehicle operations

include force-multiplier effects, redundancy avoidance and

the utilisation of heterogeneous vehicle configurations to reduce

risk to expensive assets. But to achieve the full benefits,

suitable architectures that facilitate true cooperative autonomous

planning for task splitting and allocation must be

realised (Evans et al. 2006).

In this case, it is necessary to extend the single vehicle

mission plan recovery to a mission plan recovery for a group

or team of vehicles performing a collaborative mission. A

shared situation awareness is required for the team of vehicles

(SAT ) to which every team member possess the SAS

required for its responsibilities (Cartwright et al. 2007). The

main challenge in this case is to deal with the acoustic communication

limitations associated to the underwater environment

(Sotzing, Evans, and Lane 2007).