Planning for autonomous vehicles remains an important and challenging research topic. This thesis focuses on decentralized planning for autonomous agents perform-ing complex missions. These types of missions often involve a set of tasks, each representing a component of the mission. Task planning

Abstract — This paper extends the consensus-based bundle algorithm (CBBA), a distributed task allocation framework previously developed by the authors, to address complex missions for a team of heterogeneous agents in a dynamic environment. The extended algorithm proposes appropriate handling

Abstract—Complex mission scenarios are those in which information changes continuously and quickly or scenarios having large quantities of expensive resources, a large number of norms and rules, or a large number of personnel, for instance crimes in cyberspace, computer forensics, or computer

Abstract—This paper presents a decentralized algorithm that can create feasible assignments for a network of autonomous agents in the presence of coupled constraints. The coupled constraints are introduced to address complex mission charac-teristics that include assignment relationships, where

commercial workflow technology and extend the scope and mission of workflow management systems to support increased workflow automation in complex real-world environments involving heterogeneous, autonomous, and distributed information systems. In particular, we discuss how distributed object management

Planning for autonomous vehicles remains an important and challenging research topic. This thesis focuses on decentralized planning for autonomous agents performing complex missions. These types of missions often involve a set of tasks, each representing a component of the mission. Task planning

Abstract Military reconnaissance missions often employ a set of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with sensors to gather intelligence information from a set of known targets. UAVs are limited by the number of sensors they can hold; also attaching a sensor adds weight to the aircraft which

This paper presents a software environment that uses our comprehensive modeling and design methodology for representing complex missions and synthesizing the concomitant adaptive organizational structures for different sets of design objectives. The tool box provides a step-bystep visualization

A design is presented for an Operations Base Station (OBS) in low earth orbit that will function as an integral part of a space transportation system, enabling assembly and maintenance of a Cis-Lunar transportation infrastructure and integration of vehicles for other high energy space missions

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