The paper provides a review and addresses the problem of creating a modular hardware system that can be effortlessly reconfigured by developers of autonomous intelligent control systems for mission type task execution in realtime physical environments. The idea is to allow for a common hardware platform which enables algorithmic results to be compared, accumulated and properly assessed by the r...

Access Control is an important mechanism of information security. Role-Based Access Control is a famous access control approach with good flexibility. RBAC96 and ARBAC97 are classical RBAC models. The ARBAC97 model facilitates decentralized administration of RBAC. However, ARBAC97 has some shortcomings in the case of being used in an organization with autonomous subsidiaries. The member of an a...

In this research we investigate the applicability of autonomous intelligent agents in Urban Traffic Control (UTC), and why these Artificial Intelligent strategies are useful. Designing, implementing, optimising and adjusting UTC systems involves quite some effort and knowledge. We propose a system that autonomously can adapt to changing environments. The main advantages from the artificial Inte...

The present work proposes an autonomous tracking control system and a control structure to combine autonomous and teleoperation commands in a bicycle-type mobile robot. This compounded operation renders great flexibility to the control system of the mobile robot. For autonomous operation, a simple tracking controller that includes compensation of the robot dynamics is developed. This tracking c...

Today s robotics applications require complex real time high bandwidth sensor systems Although many such systems have been devel oped integrating them into an autonomous robot architecture remains an area of active research In this chapter we describe our behavior based active stereo vision system and how we integrated this system into a hybrid reactive deliberative robot control architecture T...

This paper describes the development of an ontology for autonomous systems, as the initial stage of a research programme on autonomous systems' engineering within a model-based control approach. The ontology aims at providing a unified conceptual framework for the autonomous systems' stakeholders, from developers to software engineers. The modular ontology contains both generic and domain-speci...