Aerial: a framework to support human decision making in a constrained environment

Pierre-Yves Dumas (1) , Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni (2) , Patrick Taillibert (2)

1 THALES Airborne Systems [Elancourt]
2 SMA - Systèmes Multi-Agents

In this paper, we propose an architecture that uses a tender protocol, the Contract Net Protocol (CNP), to let human operators express their consent about the allocation of goals to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in a constrained environment. The CNP has several well-known properties : it has an appropriate level of automation; it is simple; it spares the bandwidth. But if bids are evaluated solely on the base of a numerical payoff, the CNP cannot fully convey human preference in complex situations. Thus, we extended and implemented the CNP within our framework, Aerial, to enable a more subjective human feedback. We detail how we build the bids and how we filter them to not flood the user. We also explain how we enable a dependable commitment in a dynamic context when the award time is not accurately foreseen.

Domaines: Système multi-agents [cs.MA]

Pierre-Yves Dumas, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Patrick Taillibert. Aerial: a framework to support human decision making in a constrained environment. ICTAI, 2012. ⟨hal-00744325⟩