Large-Scale Multi-Agent Distributed Mission Planning and Execution in Complex Dynamic Environments

摘要

Multi-Agent Distributed Goal Satisfaction, MADGS, is a JAVA-based mobile-agent system under development to facilitate distributed mission planning and execution in complex dynamic environments with a focus on distributed goal satisfaction. The MADGS system represents the union of five separate components, Agent-Server (named Carolina), mobile-agents, Distributed Goal Satisfaction (DGS), agentTool, and Prodigy. The target real-world operational environment for the MADGS system is a network topology consisting of intermittent nodes and uncertain network connections that exist in a large-scale, multi-platform dynamic network. The resulting design developed for this environment addresses the communications issues faced when handling massive numbers of mobileagents in such a topology. Our primary contribution to date has been examining the communications infrastructure requirements and changing how real-time mission planning and execution can be achieved without re-planning in the face of plan failures.