Knowledge configured vehicle -a layered artificial cognition based approach to decoupling high-level UAV mission tasking from vehicle implementation properties

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kriegel, Michael ^a   Brüggenwirth, Stefan ^a   Schulte, Axel ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

DECISION FUNCTIONS; EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; LEVEL OF AUTONOMIES; LOW-LEVEL SYSTEMS; MISSION CAPABILITY; PLATFORM INDEPENDENCE; SENSOR DEPLOYMENT; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85086950376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2011-6240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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