Telemanaged systems.

摘要

Sandia National Laboratories is developing a number of telemanaged systems. Telemanagement is a term coined to describe those systems which are neither purely autonomous nor purely teleoperated, but rather combine these two operating modes depending on the task to be performed. When the task is solely performed with a human operator in the control loop, the system is teleoperated; when the computer is the sole controller, the system operates autonomously. Most operations are a mixture of these two extremes and are termed ''telemanaged.'' Autonomous systems perform best in a structured environment performing structured, repetitive tasks. Teleoperated systems provide the most cost-effective solution when unpredictable tasks must be performed in an unfamiliar or unstructured environment. However, in most cases, autonomous systems require some human oversight, and teleoperated systems perform best with computer assistance. 1 fig.