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Autonomous system (mathematics)
About: Autonomous system (mathematics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1648 publications have been published within this topic receiving 38373 citations.
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01 Oct 2005
TL;DR: This work proposes a modular approach based on the principles of acti on selection where the actions recommanded by several basic behaviors are combined in a glo bal decision to obtain a very autonomous architecture requiring very few codes.
Abstract: The problem addressed in this article is that of automatical ly designing autonomous agents having to solve complex tasks involving several -andpossibly concurrent- objectives. We propose a modular approach based on the principles of acti on selection where the actions recommanded by several basic behaviors are combined in a glo bal decision. In this framework, our main contribution is a method making an agent able to auto matically define and build the basic behaviors it needs through incremental reinforcemen t learning methods. This way, we obtain a very autonomous architecture requiring very few ha nd-coding. This approach is tested and discussed on a representative problem taken from the "ti le-world".
8 citations
01 Jul 2010
TL;DR: Important lessons include being explicit about the level of authority to delegate to the automated part of the system and viewing the interaction between the human and the automated planning / execution system as a partnership, thus facilitating a shared awareness of, and commitment to, the autonomous system.
Abstract: We describe how establishing goals at different levels of abstraction helps a human operator to supervise/control aion helps a human operator to supervise/control a system consisting of multiple unmanned air vehicles. In particular we focus on the importance of including Human Machine Interaction within the design of an autonomous system. Important lessons include being explicit about the level of authority to delegate to the automated part of the system and viewing the interaction between the human and the automated planning / execution system as a partnership, thus facilitating a shared awareness of, and commitment to,
8 citations
06 May 2009
TL;DR: An autonomous system for personalized production of basketball videos from multi-sensored data under limited display resolution is proposed by using statistical inference and efficiently alleviates flickering visual artifacts due to viewpoint switching, and discontinuous story-telling artifacts.
Abstract: We propose an autonomous system for personalized production of basketball videos from multi-sensored data under limited display resolution. We propose criteria for optimal planning of viewpoint coverage and camera selection for improved story-telling and perceptual comfort. By using statistical inference, we design and implement the estimation process. Experiments are made to verify the system, which shows that our method efficiently alleviates flickering visual artifacts due to viewpoint switching, and discontinuous story-telling artifacts.
8 citations
09 Sep 2019
TL;DR: The idea of trust-based digital ecosystems, built upon the concept of a digital twin of this ecosystem, is presented as a machine readable representation of the system and a representation of goals and trust at runtime.
Abstract: With progressing digitalization and the trend towards autonomous computing, systems tend to form digital ecosystems, where each autonomous system aims at achieving its own goals. Within a highway ecosystem, for example, autonomous vehicles could deploy smart agents in the form of software applications. This would enable cooperative driving and ultimately formation of vehicle platoons that reduce air friction and fuel consumption. In the smart grid domain, software-defined virtual power plants could be established to enable remote and autonomous collaboration of various units, such as smart meters, data concentrators, and distributed energy resources, in order to optimize power generation, demand-side energy and power storage. Effective collaboration within these emerging digital ecosystems strongly relies on the assumption that all components of the ecosystem operate as expected, and a level of trust among them is established based on that. In this paper, we present the idea of trust-based digital ecosystems, built upon the concept of a digital twin of this ecosystem, as a machine readable representation of the system and a representation of goals and trust at runtime. This creates demand for introducing a reference architecture for trust-based digital ecosystems that would capture their main concepts and relationships. By modeling the goals of the actors and systems, a reference architecture can provide a basis for analyzing competitive forces that influence the health of an ecosystem.
8 citations
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17 Aug 1993
TL;DR: In this article, a switching control system for controlling connections on the physical plane and allowing the user systems to formulate their connection requests in an independent manner from the hardware architecture of the communications system is presented.
Abstract: The user software for controlling connections in communications system must be uncoupled from the hardware architecture of the communications system. A switching control system is disclosed which represents an autonomous system for controlling connections on the physical plane and which allows the user systems to formulate their connection requests in an independent manner from the hardware architecture of the communications system.
8 citations