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Assessment of Situational Awareness in Groups of Interacting Robots

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Problem statement: Groups of proactive SEMS-based robots need to be taught for cooperative functioning. Efficiency of learning and teaching algorithms has to be checked by modeling. The concept of situation awareness (SA) provides a promising tool for such checks. Purpose of research: Concretization of the concept of SA for the tasks of organizing the teamwork of interacting robots. Results: Quantitative assessment of SA and its three main aspects (perception of environmental elements, comprehending of the situation and projecting future statuses) for groups of robots. Practical significance: Objective specification of self-assessment functions for equal-ranking robots allows to prevent conflicts among them, and to ensure coordination of robots interactions within hierarchical groups.

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The authors would like to thank the Russian Foundation for Basic Researches (grants 16-29-04424, 18-29-03022, 18-07-00132, 18-01-00076, and 19-08-0079) for partial funding of this research.

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    Alexander Ya. Fridman

  2. Institute of Problems in Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), St. Petersburg, Russia

    Boris A. Kulik

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    Irina L. Tarasova

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Fridman, A.Y., Kulik, B.A. (2020). Assessment of Situational Awareness in Groups of Interacting Robots. In: Gorodetskiy, A., Tarasova, I. (eds) Smart Electromechanical Systems. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 261. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32710-1_3

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