Determining Object Safety Using a Multiagent Collaborative System

We consider the problem of Object Safety: how objects endowed with processing, communication, and sensing ca-pabilities can determine their safety. We assign an agent to each object capable of looking out for its own self in-terests, while concurrently collaborating with its neighbors and learning/reinforcing its beliefs from them. After consid-ering related work, we propose a general framework con-sisting of agents with case-bases of threat detection systems and a mechanism for sharing and confirming beliefs with other agents. While our approach is designed to be appli-cable to Object Safety domains in general, we particularly consider its application to transport chain security. We fur-ther propose a testing framework that uses real sensor data and Object Safety scenario simulations to evaluate our ap-proach. 1