A distributed technology will be presented enabling a remote operator to manage arbitrary sized groups of stationary or
mobile sensors (or robots), behaving altogether as an integral and global-goal-driven unit. The group is tasked in a
Distributed Scenario Language (DSL) collectively executed by communicating interpreters embedded in individual
sensors and integrated with their functionalities. Compact and created on the fly, DSL scenarios can be remotely injected
into any sensor, subsequently self-replicating, self-modifying, and self-spreading in a virus mode throughout the whole
group, tasking individual units and setting needed operational infrastructures among them. The approach can remotely
control dynamic and open systems of different natures and comprehend complex phenomena unavailable to individual
sensors.
The project aims at obtaining high integrity and goal orientation of distributed dynamic systems, which may include
multiple wireless sensors and mobile robots, as well as humans. The technology developed is based on the ideology of
gestalt, where the whole is considered first, dominating over parts and dynamically defining their role and even existence
in the context of changing goals and states of environment. Spatial mission scenarios, which may be created on the fly,
are represented in a compact non-agents form collectively executed by the intelligent network of interpreters embedded
into sensitive points of the system to be managed. The approach allows us to provide effective asymmetric runtime
solutions to complex asymmetric problems and fulfill objectives in unpredictable environments, paving the way to
massive robotization of advanced civil and military systems. The paper covers a broad spectrum of topics from
philosophy and ideology to system management, to novel distributed control technology and its implementation, and to a
variety of important applications. The paradigm described may be considered as the first implementation of the idea of
gestalt to management of open distributed systems, as well as the first globally programmable universal super-machine
dynamically covering distributed worlds and operating with both information and matter without any central resources.
A flexible, ubiquitous, and universal solution for management of distributed dynamic systems will be presented. It
allows us to grasp complex systems at a higher than usual, semantic level, penetrating their infrastructures (also creating
or modifying them) while establishing local and global dominance over any system organizations and coordinating their
behavior in the way needed. The approach may allow the navigated systems to maintain high runtime integrity and
automatically recover from indiscriminate damages, preserving global goal orientation and situation awareness in
unpredictable and hostile environments.
A universal solution for management of dynamic sensor networks will be presented, covering both networking and
application layers. A network of intelligent modules, overlaying the sensor network, collectively interprets mission
scenarios in a special high-level language, which can start from any nodes and cover the network at runtime. The
spreading scenarios are extremely compact, which may be useful for energy saving communications. The code will be
exhibited for distributed collection and fusion of sensor data, also for tracking mobile targets by scattered and
communicating sensors.
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