Bridge

Connect impact analysis (i.e., estimates of adversary's future actions) with sensor/perception management

Milestones

TODO

1. Network: target tracking

• Model and maintain particles
• Decide structure (x,y,...)
• Dynamics (terrain, attractors) (we know that the enemy has some goal(s), and the best thing we can do is to use whatever knowledge we have even though it may lead us astray).
• Use a particle filter for every hostile platoon (how many particles should we use?)

2. Own platoon: plan recognition

• Generates plan estimates given the needs of the own platoon and the particle filters. (the whole cloud or some summarized info)
• calculate expected threat and threat variance
• task prioritization

3. Network: sensor management

• combine requirements from A and B
• choose suitable pairs of targets and sensors
• calculate predicted image for sensor control
• create new detection model for sensors
• consider preemption, especially when assigned sensor tasks are no longer relevant

• We should consider to what extent we address the issue of high-level information; what is true is that we do control sensors given the information need (not the only from the sensor system perspective)
• Below: old considerings
• Color and plot samples in the scenario map
• Multiple task origins (several units requesting information); task management has to consider this
• Formalize the bridge (its spaces and transitions)
• Make a comparison with other algorithms and decide when it is valid and when it is not
• Try perhaps both a centralised and decentralised (e.g., contract net protocol) solutions
• Integration with aggregation algorithm and FLAMES framework
• Prediction of future (enemy) states to improve sensor control
• Preemption of resources to use for other services (priorities for executing tasks may decrease while the priorities of others increase)

Lower priority

• particle cloud (convex hull) intersecting barriers, i.e., discontinuities in the threat function, if not less particles need to be sampled.
• considering company level threats (and decomposing them).

Important notes

Particle filter

Scenario

• Utilize geographical structure
• Use physically separated companies
• Consider terrain

Task management

Allocation scheme

• Costs: there might be costs involved (e.g., expensive fuel for UAV)

Meetings