SAFEGUARDING RESOURCES OF PHYSICAL ENTITES IN A SHARED ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

A control system and a control method are provided for controlling physical entities (robots or autonomous vehicles) to complete tasks within a shared environment. Use is made of a trained resource safety model to predict whether future resource (energy, material) levels of the physical entities satisfy a safe resource level condition, such as a minimum resource level, given previous resource levels and a selection of behaviours for the physical entities. If a respective physical entity is predicted to have a future resource level which does not satisfy the safe resource level condition, the selected behaviour may be modified or replaced, for example by a behaviour which is predicted by the resource safety model to satisfy the safe resource level condition.

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