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Command and Authorization Services for Multiple Humans Interacting with a Software Control Agent for Advanced Life Support

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Safety and Security in Multiagent Systems

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This paper describes current work developing command and authorization services to support the coordination of multiple humans and an autonomous control agent working on the same underlying advanced life support system. The primary goal of these services is to prevent unknowing or accidental conflicts from arising as a result of issuing commands or taking action on the system. Avoiding such conflicts minimizes the risk of interfering with the work of another agent or putting the system into an unsafe operating state. This paper provides an overview of the advanced life support system at NASA to which this work has been applied and then discusses details for authorization, overrides, and system reconfiguration for commanding.

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  1. TRACLabs, NASA Johnson Space Center, 1012 Hercules, Houston, TX, 77058, USA

    Debra Schreckenghost & Pete Bonasso

  2. Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin, P.O. Box 8029, Austin, TX, 78713, USA

    Cheryl Martin

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, P.O. Box, New Zealand

    Mike Barley

  2. School of Computing and Technology, University of East London, UK

    Haralambos Mouratidis

  3. Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, P.O. Box, VIC 3010, Australia

    Amy Unruh

  4. Computer Science Department, University of Wyoming, 82070, Laramie, WY, USA

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  5. Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, PA 15213, Pittsburgh, USA

    Paul Scerri

  6. University of Trento, Povo (Trento), Italy

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Martin, C., Schreckenghost, D., Bonasso, P. (2009). Command and Authorization Services for Multiple Humans Interacting with a Software Control Agent for Advanced Life Support. In: Barley, M., Mouratidis, H., Unruh, A., Spears, D., Scerri, P., Massacci, F. (eds) Safety and Security in Multiagent Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4324. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04879-1_16

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