Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation

Alfredo Giuliano

Jeffery Saunders

Martin Kearney-Fischer

Tim Moser

Zarrin Chua

Francisco A Navarro Félix

Christopher John Devine

Jakob Widauer

A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for operating air vehicles. Missions for the air vehicles are grouped into categories based on durations of the missions. The missions within the categories are clustered into subsets of the missions that can be concurrently performed to meet a set of mission performance criteria. The subsets of the missions are assigned to a set of air vehicle supervisors.

Air vehicle mission deconfliction

A method and corresponding apparatus and computer-readable storage medium are provided for causing one or more robots to execute a mission. The method includes identifying the mission including a nominal sequence of selected tasks that are executable to cause the one or more robots to execute maneuvers to achieve a mission objective. The method includes determining a task graph in which the mission is modeled. The task graph is expressed as a directed graph and includes selected task nodes representing the selected tasks that are connected by edges representing transitions between the selected tasks. The method also includes causing the one or more robots to execute the mission using the task graph and a task library of tasks including a selected task executable to cause the one or more robots to execute a maneuver.

Causing a robot to execute a mission using a task graph and a task library

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Lucerne, Switzerland

Alfredo Giuliano