The presentation describes
organization of large distributed robotized systems with the help of high level
networking ideology and technology allowing for integral, holistic solutions of
complex problems in rapidly changing and unpredictable environments. Exemplary
scenarios in Spatial Grasp Language for practical tasks oriented on the use of
multiple cooperative robotic units operating under unified control provided by
the technology are also exhibited and discussed.
Large numbers of robotic facilities have been accumulated
worldwide in practically any area of human activity, and their further
development is taking place with increased financing and speed in both civil
and military areas. But in many cases they still remain as specialized devices
rather than intelligent collaborators for humans capable of substituting them
if needed, with dissimilar, often proprietary, architectures and specific
management and control.
To implant seamlessly advanced robotics into human societies
at even greater scale, especially in critical areas, we must develop and usemuch more general and universal approaches to their tasking and autonomousdecision-making, also effective integration with human command and control
infrastructures.
The paper describes high level formalism and technology,
already prototyped and tested on numerous applications in distributed networked
systems, that can express operations and top decisions in both physical and
virtual environments regardless of who (humans) or what (robots) should perform
them, and in which quantities. This can allow us to make implementation in
dynamic and complex environments where manned and/or unmanned resources are
determined not a priori but rather at runtime, depending on circumstances.