Integrating Timeliner and autonomous planning

Timeliner is used to automate tasks in a target system. Timeliner is capable of automating complex sequences of actions, but the desired actions must be planned out and understood in advance by human script-writers. This thesis presents the design, implementation, and demonstration of a prototype autonomous system built on top of Timeliner. It uses the existing Timeliner system for plan execution and execution monitoring, but adds a deliberative layer for autonomous mission planning. The increased autonomy of this system has the potential to lower operational costs and increase functionality.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Swanton, Daniel Reed

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Robert A. Brown and Leslie Kaelbling.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41624

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/41624