Joanne Thoms

BAE Systems · Advanced Technology Centre

In this paper we introduce a methodology for optimizing the expected cost of routing a single vehicle which has a probability of breaking down or failing to complete some of its tasks. More specifically, a calculus is devised for finding the optimal order in which each site should be visited.

People in complex scenarios face the challenge of understanding the purpose and effect of other human and computational behaviour on their own goals through intent recognition. They are left asking what caused person or system ‘x’ to do that? The necessity to provide this support human-computer interaction has increased alongside the deployment of...

Understanding intentionality is a necessary feature of joint activities involving interdependent agents. This challenge has increased alongside the deployment of autonomous systems that are to some degree unsupervised. This research aims to reduce the number of intentionality recognition breakdowns between people and autonomous systems by designing...

This research item (1) is a study into an engineering technique that enables us to investigate the cognitive aspects of systems. Where previous techniques have focused on individual human roles undertaking defined tasks, this work developed engineering technologies to understanding the cognitive contribution of the human team participating in the s...

In this paper we consider the challenge of awareness and how it may apply to a mahine capable of autonomy at the deliberative level. We present a concept that awareness is a goal oriented dynamic joining of the machunes knowledge whose purpose is to enable the machine to make decisions in the complexities of the real world.

In this paper we present a model that has enabled us to communicate and discuss within the DTC, the architectural and information structure issues associated with autonomous systems composed of inhomogeneous elements.

This research item is investigating how we may seek to design autonomous entities, such that when combined together into a system, their emergent global system behaviour can be controlled or constrained by a commander. We start by considering the challenges of observing a system before looking at specific global system attributes that can be used t...