Mission planning system for vehicles with varying levels of autonomy
First Claim
1. A system for tasking a team of a plurality of unmanned vehicles executing a mission plan, each of the plurality of unmanned vehicles having an associated set of resources and an associated level of autonomy, said system comprising:
- a planning information manager configured to receive the mission plan, translate information from the mission plan into a desired format, and provide updates of objectives to the mission plan;
a mission planner configured to receive the formatted information from the planning information manager, formulate a plurality of mission tasks from the formatted information, and determine an optimal allocation of a selected set of the plurality of unmanned vehicles to the plurality of mission tasks according to the respective associated resources and level of autonomy of the plurality of unmanned vehicles; and
a user interface manager configured to communicate a set of instructions to each of the selected set of the plurality of unmanned vehicles, the set of instructions for each unmanned vehicle comprising a minimum set of instructions associated with the level of autonomy of the unmanned vehicles.
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Abstract
A system in accordance with the present invention tasks a team of autonomous unmanned vehicles. The system includes a first team member and a second team member. The first team member has a first level of autonomy. The second team member has a second level of autonomy. The first level of autonomy is different than the first level of autonomy. The first team member is given instructions corresponding to the first level of autonomy. The second team member is given instructions corresponding to the second level of autonomy.
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1. A system for tasking a team of a plurality of unmanned vehicles executing a mission plan, each of the plurality of unmanned vehicles having an associated set of resources and an associated level of autonomy, said system comprising:
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a planning information manager configured to receive the mission plan, translate information from the mission plan into a desired format, and provide updates of objectives to the mission plan; a mission planner configured to receive the formatted information from the planning information manager, formulate a plurality of mission tasks from the formatted information, and determine an optimal allocation of a selected set of the plurality of unmanned vehicles to the plurality of mission tasks according to the respective associated resources and level of autonomy of the plurality of unmanned vehicles; and a user interface manager configured to communicate a set of instructions to each of the selected set of the plurality of unmanned vehicles, the set of instructions for each unmanned vehicle comprising a minimum set of instructions associated with the level of autonomy of the unmanned vehicles. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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