Proactive monitoring and maintenance of intelligent control systems: a design pattern for autonomous systems

This paper proposes an architectural pattern for building proactive control, monitoring and maintenance modules (PCMM) for autonomous systems (AS). The most popular autonomous systems are mobile robot systems (MRS). This pattern is also applicable to other intelligent control systems (ICS). This paper results in a proposal which would help ICS project managers and engineers to estimate the probability that an ICS would succeed or fail. Furthermore, this proposal offers the possibility to forecast ICS problems, adjust the project management pathways and define the problem sources, as well as possible solutions, in order to deliver a robust autonomous system.