Title :
Cougaar: A Robust Configurable Multi Agent Platform
Author :
Helsinger, Aaron ; Wright, Todd
Author_Institution :
BBN Technol., Cambridge, MA
Abstract :
Aerospace operations face unreliable, slow networks, dynamic conditions, and expensive launches. Therefore, researchers are investigating autonomous agent architectures for space system control. However, agent systems to date lack proven reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Under the UltraLog program, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has sponsored the development of the Cougaar agent architecture (open-source at http://cougaar.org), a robust reusable agent framework. UltraLog used Cougaar to build a large-scale distributed prototype planning application, which was assessed under machine kills, network cuts and degradations, and increased workload. The results indicate that Cougaar agent applications would enable reliable cost-effective aerospace applications
Keywords :
aerospace computing; aerospace control; multi-agent systems; Cougaar; DARPA; UltraLog program; United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; aerospace operations; autonomous agent architectures; configurable multiagent platform; distributed prototype planning application; machine kills; network cuts; network degradations; reusable agent framework; space system control; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Autonomous agents; Communication system control; Control systems; Robustness; Satellites; Space missions; Space technology; Telecommunication network reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 2005 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Big Sky, MT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8870-4
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2005.1559614
