Management of unmanned moving sensors through human decision layers: a bi-level optimization process with calls to costly sub-processes

Frédéric Dambreville

doi:10.1117/12.2032071

22 October 2013 Management of unmanned moving sensors through human decision layers: a bi-level optimization process with calls to costly sub-processes

Frédéric Dambreville

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Proceedings Volume 8899, Emerging Technologies in Security and Defence; and Quantum Security II; and Unmanned Sensor Systems X; 88991C (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2032071
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2013, Dresden, Germany

Abstract

While there is a variety of approaches and algorithms for optimizing the mission of an unmanned moving sensor, there are much less works which deal with the implementation of several sensors within a human organization. In this case, the management of the sensors is done through at least one human decision layer, and the sensors management as a whole arises as a bi-level optimization process. In this work, the following hypotheses are considered as realistic: Sensor handlers of first level plans their sensors by means of elaborated algorithmic tools based on accurate modelling of the environment; Higher level plans the handled sensors according to a global observation mission and on the basis of an approximated model of the environment and of the first level sub-processes. This problem is formalized very generally as the maximization of an unknown function, defined a priori by sampling a known random function (law of model error). In such case, each actual evaluation of the function increases the knowledge about the function, and subsequently the efficiency of the maximization. The issue is to optimize the sequence of value to be evaluated, in regards to the evaluation costs. There is here a fundamental link with the domain of experiment design. Jones, Schonlau and Welch proposed a general method, the Efficient Global Optimization (EGO), for solving this problem in the case of additive functional Gaussian law. In our work, a generalization of the EGO is proposed, based on a rare event simulation approach. It is applied to the aforementioned bi-level sensor planning.

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Frédéric Dambreville "Management of unmanned moving sensors through human decision layers: a bi-level optimization process with calls to costly sub-processes", Proc. SPIE 8899, Emerging Technologies in Security and Defence; and Quantum Security II; and Unmanned Sensor Systems X, 88991C (22 October 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2032071

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Sensors

Expectation maximization algorithms

Modeling

Computer simulations

Environmental sensing

Optimization (mathematics)

Sensor performance

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