A Policy-Based Management Architecture for Mobile
Collaborative Teams
Eskindir Asmare, Anandha Gopalan,
Morris Sloman, Naranker Dulay and
Emil Lupu
Abstract:
Many missions are deemed dangerous or impractical to perform by humans,
but can use collaborating, self-managing Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
(UAVs) which adapt their behaviour to current context, recover from
component failure or optimise performance. This paper describes a
policy-based distributed self-management framework for both individual
and teams of UAVs. We use three levels of specifications --- policy,
mission class and mission instance to enable reuse of both policies and
mission classes. The architecture has been tested on devices ranging
from small laptops to body area networks. Initial evaluation shows the
distributed architecture is scalable and outperforms a centralised
mission management scheme.