An Agent-Based C4ISR Testbed - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

An Agent-Based C4ISR Testbed

Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Sean R. Owens, Robin Glinton, Young-Woo Seo, Bin Yu, Charles E. Grindle, and Yang Xu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '05), June, 2005

Abstract

This paper describes six functional extensions to the OneSAF Testbed Baseline (OTB) modeling and simulation environment: (1) the addition of modules to access OTB?s terrain database, (2) a supervised, on-line "batch-mode" interface to OTB for running experiments, (3) the addition of virtual reality (VR) agent proxies for integration with a low-cost, off-the-shelf VR engine, (4) a two-way OTB-agent bridge for the real-time query and control of OTB entities, (5) an unsupervised, off-line "batch-mode" interface for automatically loading, generating, reconfiguring, and executing experiments, and (6) the addition of new sensor model entities. These extensions enable the integration with OTB of C2 and multi-level information fusion algorithms that would not normally integrate with its event-based modeling and simulation engine. This paper describes the system architecture of the testbed and some of the research applications that demonstrate its use.

BibTeX

@conference{Giampapa-2005-9227,
author = {Joseph Andrew Giampapa and Katia Sycara and Sean R. Owens and Robin Glinton and Young-Woo Seo and Bin Yu and Charles E. Grindle and Yang Xu and},
title = {An Agent-Based C4ISR Testbed},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '05)},
year = {2005},
month = {June},
publisher = {IEEE},
address = {3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5997},
keywords = {C4ISR testbed, OneSAF, agent, multi-level information fusion, simulation, RETSINA},
}