Multi-agent coordination by temporal plan fusion: Application to combat search and rescue

Hybrid mission planning with coalition formation

“…Temporal fusion merges temporal plans and their associated temporal constraints (Allouche and Boukhtouta, 2010). Temporal plans were modeled as a simple temporal network with nodes for action start time points and end time points, while edges represented the temporal constraints between the time points.…”

The Fusion of Fuzzy Temporal Plans: Managing Uncertainty and Time in Decentralized Command and Control Systems

“…In (Allouche & Boukhtouta, 2009) a temporal plan is defined as a graph of temporal constraints. It corresponds to a set of temporally constrained actions.…”

“…After propagation, the timeout and the candidate list are recomputed. When a new node in the graph occurs (the execution of an action starts or finishes), the fuzzy temporal constraint between this node and the previous occurred node is updated by www.intechopen.com (Allouche & Boukhtouta, 2009) by adding fuzzy temporal constraints in the graph. The original minimal graph is illustrated in Figure 9.…”

“…In this example, we will not show the values of the timeout and candidate list since they are the same as in (Allouche & Boukhtouta, 2009). Only the change of fuzzy temporal constraints will be shown throughout the execution of the plan.…”

“…This issue is even more critical in a network enabled environment where several tasks are distributed over the environment and can be carried out by different partners under different temporal constraints. In previous work (Allouche & Boukhtouta, 2009) a framework for distributed temporal plan fusion and monitoring has been proposed. A set of agents are tasked to coordinate the execution of different plans with different temporal constraints.…”