D. Schleicher, L. Bergasa, R. Barea, E. López, M. Ocaña
{"title":"Real-Time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using a Wide-Angle Stereo Camera","authors":"D. Schleicher, L. Bergasa, R. Barea, E. López, M. Ocaña","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.61","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new method for real-time ego-motion calculation applied to the location/orientation of a cheap wide-angle stereo camera in a 3D environment. To achieve that, the goal is to solve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. Our approach consists in the 3D sequential mapping of natural landmarks by means of a stereo camera, which also provides means to obtain the camera location/orientation. The dynamic behavior is modeled using a top-down Bayesian method. The results show a comparison between our system and a monocular visual SLAM system using a hand-waved camera. Several improvements related to no priori environment knowledge requirements, lower processing time (real-time constrained) and higher robustness is presented","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127133943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Cognitive Agent-based Approach to Varying Behaviours in Computer Generated Forces Systems to Model Scenarios like Coalitions","authors":"M. Fletcher","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.2","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe a general approach for dynamic variation in behaviour of entities in military-based computer generated forces (CGF) system scenarios. A typical scenario might represent the coalition of military forces from two countries to provide suppression of an enemy's air defence capability. The entities in the scenario are cognitively-plausible models of individual people and hierarchical groups of people, and are modelled using intelligent software agents. The cognitive agents' situational awareness (SA) of the ongoing battle is affected due to the imposition of various moderating factors such as fatigue, fear and stress. This variation of SA impinges on the agents' selection and execution of tactics in response to the observation of threats and so provides the CGF system with a higher degree of realism. This work is central to the development of the next generation of computer generated forces systems that are to be inherently adaptable, `intelligent' and dynamically re-configurable in order to cope with the fast changing demands of military operational analysis, procurement and training environments. The paper discusses the key features of these cognitive agents' variability through a military demonstration","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127437319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Context-Based Disaster Management Support","authors":"A. Smirnov, M. Pashkin, N. Chilov, T. Levashova","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.19","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes an approach to decision making support for disaster management. The approach is based on the methodology that assumes three levels of information integration. The application domain is described via an application ontology using the formalism of object-oriented constraint networks. The problem is described via an abstract context that is obtained as a result of the slicing operation on the application ontology. Finally, filling the abstract context with up-to-date information about the current situation produces an operational context. Contexts of both types share the same knowledge representation formalism that is used by the application ontology. As a result the operational context can be considered as a constraint satisfaction problem. Solving this task produces feasible decisions in the current situation","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127805817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Agent Framework for Distributed Trading","authors":"D. Sabaz, Z. Alibhai, W. Gruver","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.52","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed trading can be used to facilitate the exchange of both digital and non-digital goods between groups of users. Applications for trading include digital content exchange between groups of devices, such as digital media players. These devices, which have limited storage and processing capabilities, may also communicate via ad-hoc wireless networks. In order to adapt to increasing numbers of devices and the need for device mobility, agent based frameworks and distributed intelligent systems are needed, rather than traditional client/server architectures. These agent technologies must also be optimized to avoid overwhelming limited resources. The solution should be easily adaptable to a wide variety of environments, regardless whether the goods are digital. In this paper, we present a multi-agent framework that is scalable, efficient, and reusable, and exploits the inherent symmetries of trading","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"323 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114057781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Sislák, M. Rehák, M. Pechoucek, D. Pavlícek, M. Uller
{"title":"Negotiation-Based Approach to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles","authors":"D. Sislák, M. Rehák, M. Pechoucek, D. Pavlícek, M. Uller","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.55","url":null,"abstract":"We present a framework for agent based aircraft deconfliction mechanism to enable efficient airspace use by various UAVs during coalition operations. In our approach, each vehicle is autonomous, but cooperative: it actively shares its flight plan with near aircrafts so that potential collisions can be detected and resolved using norm-based system. Non-cooperative and utility-based deconfliction approaches are also discussed as they offer a possibility to achieve more efficient and robust mechanism in the future. System is validated on multi-agent simulation that uses the public online-accessible data from various information sources","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121605170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Baresi, M. Baumgarten, M. Mulvenna, C. Nugent, K. Curran, P. Deussen
{"title":"Towards Pervasive Supervision for Autonomic Systems","authors":"L. Baresi, M. Baumgarten, M. Mulvenna, C. Nugent, K. Curran, P. Deussen","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.72","url":null,"abstract":"One of the key motivations for the provisioning of autonomic communication features in next generation services is to reduce the need of human inference for management tasks. This however means essentially that system control is delegated to the system itself i.e. the system operator gives up control to a certain extent. The consequence is that autonomic systems might deviate from intended states and behaviors, may show inconsistent or unwanted ones. We propose an approach to develop control structures complementary to distributed, heterogeneous services. We concentrate on necessary properties of those control structures, and furthermore on issues like self-applicability and self-evolution","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116863803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic reconfiguration of distributed control applications with reconfiguration services based on IEC 61499","authors":"Alois Zoitl, C. Sunder, I. Terzic","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.28","url":null,"abstract":"The support of dynamic reconfiguration on all automation levels of future manufacturing systems will the the key success factor of agile production systems. Up to now the main hindering point is the lacking support on the lowest - the real-time control - level. This work identifies requirements a dynamic reconfigurable control architecture has to fulfil. It derives a set of basic reconfiguration services based on general reconfiguration tasks. These basic services can be arbitrarily arranged to sequences accomplishing the reconfiguration process. The infrastructure presented in this paper will serve as basis for next generation self adapting agile manufacturing systems","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122454347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Ovcharenko, Z. Alibhai, C. Ng, W. Gruver, D. Sabaz
{"title":"Implementation of a Wireless Distributed Intelligent System","authors":"S. Ovcharenko, Z. Alibhai, C. Ng, W. Gruver, D. Sabaz","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.38","url":null,"abstract":"Until recently, centralized systems have been the standard approach for data and digital content sharing. Because systems have become more complex and peer-to-peer sharing rather than hierarchical sharing is desired, there is a critical need to utilize distributed intelligent system architectures. In such an environment, the system resources are inherently spread throughout the network, thereby removing bottlenecks that are present in centralized systems. With the addition of intelligence, each node becomes a holon with the ability to coordinate and cooperate with other holons in order to achieve local and global goals. The use of wireless technology allows the holons to be mobile. This paper explores the hardware and software requirements for such a system and implementation to achieve these features","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124234345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of Decentralized Capturing Behavior by Multiple Mobile Robots","authors":"Y. Kobayashi, K. Otsubo, S. Hosoe","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.23","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the design of decentralized capturing behavior by multiple mobile robots. The design is based on a gradient descent method with local information. The task of capturing a target is divided into two problems, enclosing behavior and grasping behavior. We give analysis on convergence of the local control policy in enclosing problem. In grasping behavior, we consider the force-closure condition in decentralized form for designing a local objective function. The proposed local control policies were evaluated in simulations, where the flexibility of the system was verified caused by the decentralized nature of the system","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127186087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensing Locations Positioning for Multi-robot Inspection Planning","authors":"J. Faigl, Miroslav Kulich","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.66","url":null,"abstract":"Problems of cooperative multi-robot inspection and exploration play an important role in many practical applications. This paper presents an algorithm for inspection planning based on decomposition of the problem into two subproblems - art gallery problem (AGP) that finds guards (sensing locations) and multiple traveling salesmen problem (MTSP) that connects the found guards by routes. While standard approaches for art gallery problem try to minimize a number of guards, the proposed method is designed to optimise lengths found by a MTSP solver and therefore to minimise time needed by a team of robots to inspect the working environment. The proposed algorithm has been implemented and tested. Influence of the method to quality of the inspection planning solution and comparison with the randomized dual sampling schema are discussed","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132210072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}