BEHAVIORAL MODEL FOR CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM AND GROUP CONTROL: THE BASIC CONCEPTS

  • V.I. Gorodetsky InfoWings Ltd.
Keywords: Behavior paradigm of intelligent systems, ontology, event-driven control, scenario, situation, situational awareness, group control

Abstract

The paper subject is a control problem in complex distributed cyber-physical systems pos-sessing heterogeneous resources of shared access. As a rule, such systems comprise formidable number of relatively simple autonomous and often mobile physical, virtual and social objects with embedded computational and communication capabilities. These objects are designed to jointly solve complex intelligent tasks through intensive interactions while exhibiting an intelligent behav-ior. The basic features of such systems are caused by the fact that they can solve concurrently several tasks and each of these tasks may involve a subset of the autonomous objects of the system. At that, each system object can participate, in parallel, in performance of several system tasks. As examples of applications of the system in question, one can mention complex robotic manufactur-ing, B2B-production and logistics networks, swarm robotics, swarm satellite-based distributed surveillance systems, and like called as group control systems. The paper proposes to revisit the theoretical foundation of modeling traditionally exploited for the considered class of systems that is knowledge-based paradigm of Artificial Intelligence and to use behavior-based paradigm in-stead of it. Accordingly, the paper objective is to introduce and describe the basic concepts of behavior-based ontology intended to specify scenario knowledge and data constituting the shared information space of distributed cyber-physical system. This behavior-based ontology should rep-resent domain-independent component of knowledge on group behavior and group control. In particular, the paper introduces such concepts of this ontology as group behavior scenario and its structure, event end event- driven control component, situation, exceptional situation, emergent situation, situational awareness, local, adaptive and terminal group control. The advances and novel features of the behavior-based paradigm focusing on scenario knowledge model compared to the knowledge-based paradigm of intelligent systems are demonstrated based on adaptive group control as applied to a manufacturing assembly system performed, in autonomous mode, by a group of robots.

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Published
2019-05-08
Section
SECTION II. CONTROL AND SIMULATION SYSTEMS