NDLI: A distributed multi-agent tracking, awareness, and communication system architecture for synchronized real-time situational understanding, surveillance, decision-making, and control

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Author	Megherbi, D.B. Levesque, P.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: CMINDS Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetss, Lowell, MA, USA (Levesque, P.) \|\| CMINDS Resersch Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetss, Lowell, MA, USA (Megherbi, D.B.)
Abstract	In this paper we deal with the design and analysis of an intelligent multi-agent-based architecture for synchronized real-time situational understanding, awareness, decision-making, and control in a geographically networked distributed computing environment. In particular, we focus here on the design and implementation of a middleware framework for agent intra and inter-node communication as well as computing nodes synchronization. While the proposed work finds applications in many areas including networked chemical sensors, large key infrastructures and resources such as highways and transportations, here as application of the proposed method we consider the challenging scenario case of a set of distributed collaborating radars (multi-agent) system geographically distributed over a large terrain environment with several moving targets. Here, each radar agent, taken separately, does not have the capabilities and resources to span the monitoring of the totality of a given large terrain. However, when collaborating with other radars distributed in the large terrain environment, each with similar limited capabilities, we show and illustrate the proposed distributed agents (radars) capability of not only monitoring their respective regions, but also tracking, communicating with neighboring agents, and decision-making, to collaborating span the monitoring the totality of a given large terrain. We show how the neighboring agent radars do not necessarily have to be running on the same computing node. Similarly, as part of the scenario we also consider the case of existence of friendly and unknown forces/stressors targets that are capable of moving throughout the same distributed environment. We show how the proposed algorithms are scalable. They are implemented on the CMINDS High Performance Distributed Computing Engine (HDPC) test-bed taking full advantage of a distributed environment and multiple processing systems.
Starting Page	549
Ending Page	555
File Size	1377541
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424460472
e-ISBN	9781424460489
DOI	10.1109/THS.2010.5654983
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-11-08
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Real time systems distributed systems and networks Target tracking radars Key infrastructures and resources Intelligent multi-agent systems tracking of friendly and enemy targets Computer architecture Radar tracking Synchronization Monitoring
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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