Title :
Coordinated intelligent control via epistemic utility theory
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA
Abstract :
The author presents a model of coordinated intelligent control based upon epistemic utility theory. This model provides each agent with an epistemic system, which accounts for its goals and values, its beliefs, its willingness to risk error, the existence of incomplete and contradictory evidence, and the possibility that currently held beliefs are untrue. The model is sufficiently broad to address real issues while providing sufficient detail and mathematical precision to be practically useful for the problems of estimation and control. The model is illustrated with a multi-agent robot simulation
Keywords :
cooperative systems; decision theory; intelligent control; robots; contradictory evidence; coordinated intelligent control; epistemic utility theory; incomplete evidence; multi-agent robot simulation; Artificial intelligence; Communication system control; Decision making; Decision theory; Intelligent control; Knowledge acquisition; Predictive models; Protocols; Robot kinematics; Utility theory;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1992., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0720-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1992.271805
