Validation of Autonomous Concepts using the ATHENA Environment (original) (raw)

ATHENA is a simulation framework f or supporting a prototyping design process of autonomous systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), unmanned undersea vehicles (UUV) or Autonomous Spacecraft Constellations (ASC). The use of several autonomous systems in the same command and control loops has become a challenge for both aeronautic and space industries through UAV (Fig. 1) and ASC. First, those systems must fulfil classical system engineering requirements such as timeliness, reliability, safety or survivability. Second, they must achie ve difficult operations that are traditionally relying on human intelligence. The need for an in -situation tool supporting autonomous strategies verification and validation is fundamental for the design of these systems. The simulation framework ATHENA has been specifically designed for rapid prototyping and user -friendly assessment of automatic reasoning methods and multi -agent architectures relevant to the autonomy problems. Such a framewor...

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