Authors:
Peter Sapaty
1
;
Robert Finkelstein
2
and
Joaquim Filipe
3
Affiliations:
1
Institute of Mathematical Machines & Systems, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
;
2
Robotic Technology Inc., United States
;
3
Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Critical infrastructures, key resources, emergency management, emergent societies, crisis relief, information technologies, distributed control, WAVE-WP model, wearable electronic devices, mobile robotics, spatial scenarios.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Autonomous Agents
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Distributed Control Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Environmental Monitoring and Control
;
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Information-Based Models for Control
;
Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
;
Knowledge-Based Systems Applications
;
Robotics and Automation
;
Signal Processing, Sensors, Systems Modeling and Control
Abstract:
A radically new approach will be described for the fully distributed and dynamic management of advanced crisis relief operations and missions. It is based on the installation of a universal “social” module in many existing and massively used data processing and control devices, including (but not limited to) internet hosts, laptops, mobile robots and mobile phones. These modules can collectively interpret a special scenario language while exchanging higher-level program code with accompanying data and control in parallel. This can dynamically integrate any scattered post-disaster human and technical resources into an operable distributed system which, from one side, is effectively supervised externally, and from the other side, is capable of solving complex self-analysis, coordination, survivability, relief, and reconstruction problems autonomously.