Multi System Mission Control for Teams of Unmanned Marine Vehicles – Software Structure for Online Replanning of Mission Plans

The realization of cooperative Multiple Unmanned Marine Vehicles (MUMVs) is a real challenge, due to the conditions of the marine environment. In this paper we show the necessary steps of developments to enable already existing, single autonomous vehicles to participate in a team mission. We describe the design of the control software and put an emphasis on the task of Online Replanning of the vehicles’ mission plans. This Online Replanning is one of the critical issues in the realization of vehicle teams, as existing single autonomous vehicles usually do not use this functionality.