A Mission Executor for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
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Authors
Lee, Yuh-jeng
Wilkinson, Paul
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1992
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1992
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Abstract
The Naval Postgraduate School has been conducting research into the design and testing of
an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). One facet of this research is to incrementally design a software
architecture and implement it in an advanced testbed, the AW 11. As part of the high level architecture, a
Mission Executor is being constructed using CLIPS version 5.0. The Mission Executor is an expert system
designed to oversee progress from the AW launch point to a goal area and back to the origin. It is expected
that the Executor will make informed decisions about the mission, taking into account the navigational path,
the vehicle subsystems health and the sea environment, as well as the specific mission profile which is
downloaded from an offboard mission planner. Heuristics for maneuvering, avoidance of uncharted obstacles,
waypoint navigation, and reaction to emergencies (essentially the expert knowledge of a submarine captain) are
required. Many of the vehicle subsystems are modeled as objects using the CLIPS Object Oriented Language
(COOL) embedded in CLIPS 5.0. Additionally, truth maintenance is applied to the knowledge base to keep
configurations updated.
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Report
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Computer Science (CS)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Naval Postgraduate School
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11 p.
Citation
Lee, Yuh-Jeng, and Paul Wilkinson. "A mission executor for an autonomous underwater vehicle." (1992. NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS).
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.