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Monitoring the execution of temporal plans for robotic systems

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dc.contributor Brian C. Williams.
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
dc.creator Levine, Steven James
dc.date 2014-03-06T15:39:11Z
dc.date 2014-03-06T15:39:11Z
dc.date 2012
dc.date 2012
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-04T06:26:49Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-04T06:26:49Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85398
dc.identifier 870304839
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/2960
dc.description Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012.
dc.description Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125).
dc.description To achieve robustness in dynamic and uncertain environments, robotic systems must monitor the progress of their plans during execution. This thesis develops a plan executive called Pike that is capable of executing and monitoring plans. The execution monitor at its core quickly and efficiently detects relevant disturbances that threaten future actions in the plan. We present a set of novel offline algorithms that extract sets of candidate causal links from temporally-flexible plans. A second set of algorithms uses these causal links to monitor the execution online and detect problems with low latency. We additionally introduce the TBurton executive, a system capable of robustly meeting a user's high-level goals through the combined use of Pike and a temporal generative planner. An innovative voice-commanded robot is demonstrated in hardware and simulation that robustly meets high level goals and verbalizes any causes of failure using the execution monitor.
dc.description by Steven James Levine.
dc.description M. Eng.
dc.format 125 pages
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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dc.rights http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582
dc.subject Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
dc.title Monitoring the execution of temporal plans for robotic systems
dc.type Thesis


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