Mission Plan Recovery for Increasing Vehicle Autonomy

Autonomy for autonomous vehicles is achieved at the level of decision making. This paper discusses the lack of autonomous decision making in current unmanned vehicle platforms. Although current unmanned vehicles are often termed as autonomous, they rely on the communications and decisions established with and by the operator. In order to achieve this autonomy during mission without requiring operator feedback, the study proposes the integration of novel approaches in the context of on-line plan repair algorithms capable of providing machine behavioural awareness for on-line mission adaptation and recoverability.