Implicit collaboration of intelligent agents through shared goals

The concept of goal lattices has been presented as a method with which to determine the mission value of each admissible sensor action as an aid in computing the associated expected information value rate. Implicit collaboration of sensing platforms has previously been presented as a method for coordinating the actions of autonomous entities with shared goals. In this paper we formally define that interaction and show how joint mission goals common to collaborating agents can be used to evaluate admissible sensing actions. The net result of incorporating joint goals is expected to reduce the amount of redundant sensing actions when compared to autonomous sensing systems operating without joint, collaborating goals.