Improving the Modularity of AUV Control Systems using Behaviour Trees

• In this paper, we show how behaviour trees (BTs) can be used to design modular, versatile, and robust control architectures for mission-critical systems. In particular, we show this in the context of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Robustness, in terms of system safety, is important since manual recovery of AUVs is often extremely difficult. Further more, versatility is important to be able to execute many different kinds of missions. Finally, modularity is needed to achieve a combination of robustness and versatility, as the complexity of a versatile systems needs to be encapsulated in modules, in order to create a simple overall structure enabling robustness analysis. The proposed design is illustrated using a typical AUV mission.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Robotteknik och automation (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Robotics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

artificial intelligence

autonomous underwater vehicles

behaviour trees

robotic planning

Autonomous vehicles

Forestry

Intelligent robots

Robot programming

Robust control

Robustness (control systems)

Control architecture

Mission critical systems

Of autonomous underwater vehicles

Robustness analysis

System safety

Versatile system

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