Development of Autonomous Multi Agent System for Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment

Developing autonomous multi agent systems are to be considered anadvancement of multi agent systems can be applied in both the physical and the logicalworld. Constructions of multi hazard risk assessment using spatial data for disastermanagement have a problem of effective communication because of implicitknowledge. Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value ofrisk related to a concrete situation and a recognized hazard. Multi hazard riskassessment requires commonsense knowledge related with the hazard. This complicatesthe effective communication of data to the user in real-time machine processing insupport of disaster management. The aim of the approach is to identify the influences ofdeveloping autonomous multi agent systems for risk assesmnet in disaster management.The objectives should a) contribute to a better understanding of the transformationprocesses in commonsense knowledge related with a hazard and b) provide effectivecommunication of data to the user in real-time machine processing in support of disastermanagement.In this paper we present a metodology to modeling commonsenseknowledge in Multi hazard risk assessment using Autonomous multi agent system. Thisgives three-phase knowledge modeling approach for modeling commonsenseknowledge in, which enables holistic approach for disaster management. At the initialstage autonomous agents are initialized to convert commonsense knowledge based onmulti hazards into a questionnaire. Removing dependencies among the questions aremodeled using principal component analysis. Classification of the knowledge isprocessed through fuzzy logic agent, which is constructed on the basis of principalcomponents. Further explanations for classified knowledge are derived by agent basedon expert system technology. We have implemented the system using FLEX expertsystem shell, SPSS, XML and VB. This paper describes one such approach usingclassification of human constituents in Ayurvedic medicine. Evaluation of the systemhas shown 77% accuracy.Key words: Autonomous multi agent systems, Multi hazards, risk assessment,commonsense knowledge, Fuzzy logi

Autonomous Capabilities for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Conducting Radiological Response: Findings from a High-fidelity Discovery Experiment

This article presents a preliminary work domain theory and identifies autonomous vehicle, navigational, and mission capabilities and challenges for small unmanned aerial systems (SUASs) responding to a radiological disaster. Radiological events are representative of applications that involve flying at low altitudes and close proximities to structures. To more formally understand the guidance and control demands, the environment in which the SUAS has to function, and the expected missions, tasks, and strategies to respond to an incident, a discovery experiment was performed in 2013. The experiment placed a radiological source emitting at 10 times background radiation in the simulated collapse of a multistory hospital. Two SUASs, an AirRobot 100B and a Leptron Avenger, were inserted with subject matter experts into the response, providing high operational fidelity. The SUASs were expected by the responders to fly at altitudes between 0.3 and 30 m, and hover at 1.5 m from urban structures. The proximity to a building introduced a decrease in GPS satellite coverage, challenging existing vehicle autonomy. Five new navigational capabilities were identified: scan, obstacle avoidance, contour following, environment-aware return to home, andreturn to highest reading. Furthermore, the data-to-decision process could be improved with autonomous data digestion and visualization capabilities. This article is expected to contribute to a better understanding of autonomy in a SUAS, serve as a requirement document for advanced autonomy, and illustrate how discovery experimentation serves as a design tool for autonomous vehicles

The Spanish Long-term Care System. ENEPRI Research Report No. 88, 15 June 2010

Launched in January 2009, ANCIEN is a research project that runs for a 44-month period and involves 20 partners from EU member states. The project principally concerns the future of long-term care (LTC) for the elderly in Europe and addresses two questions in particular: 1) How will need, demand, supply and use of LTC develop? 2) How do different systems of LTC perform? This case study on Spain is part of the first stage in the project aimed at collecting the basic data and necessary information to portray long-term care in each country of the EU. It will be followed by analysis and projections of future scenarios on long-term care needs, use, quality assurance and system performance. State-of-the-art demographic, epidemiologic and econometric modelling will be used to interpret and project needs, supply and use of long-term care over future time periods for different LTC systems

Mixed Initiative Systems for Human-Swarm Interaction: Opportunities and Challenges

Human-swarm interaction (HSI) involves a number of human factors impacting human behaviour throughout the interaction. As the technologies used within HSI advance, it is more tempting to increase the level of swarm autonomy within the interaction to reduce the workload on humans. Yet, the prospective negative effects of high levels of autonomy on human situational awareness can hinder this process. Flexible autonomy aims at trading-off these effects by changing the level of autonomy within the interaction when required; with mixed-initiatives combining human preferences and automation's recommendations to select an appropriate level of autonomy at a certain point of time. However, the effective implementation of mixed-initiative systems raises fundamental questions on how to combine human preferences and automation recommendations, how to realise the selected level of autonomy, and what the future impacts on the cognitive states of a human are. We explore open challenges that hamper the process of developing effective flexible autonomy. We then highlight the potential benefits of using system modelling techniques in HSI by illustrating how they provide HSI designers with an opportunity to evaluate different strategies for assessing the state of the mission and for adapting the level of autonomy within the interaction to maximise mission success metrics.Comment: Author version, accepted at the 2018 IEEE Annual Systems Modelling Conference, Canberra, Australi