Assessment of Situational Awareness in Groups of Interacting Robots

Problem statement: Groups of proactive SEMS-based robots need to be taught for cooperative functioning. Efficiency of learning and teaching algorithms has to be checked by modeling. The concept of situation awareness (SA) provides a promising tool for such checks. Purpose of research: Concretization of the concept of SA for the tasks of organizing the teamwork of interacting robots. Results: Quantitative assessment of SA and its three main aspects (perception of environmental elements, comprehending of the situation and projecting future statuses) for groups of robots. Practical significance: Objective specification of self-assessment functions for equal-ranking robots allows to prevent conflicts among them, and to ensure coordination of robots interactions within hierarchical groups.