This paper will analyze current manned launch and recovery systems across all naval surface platforms and present recommendations for improving these systems to be more adaptive to launching both manned and unmanned ocean vehicles. Specifically, this research will focus on minimizing the heave motions exhibited by the vehicle during launch and recovery. To achieve minimized heave motions and improve operational performance, an analysis was conducted to determine the feasibility, performance,...
Topic: Unmanned Vehicles, Launch and Recovery
One of the most dynamic technological advances of the last decade is the development of unmanned and autonomous vehicles. For the military, these vehicles represent a safer and more efficient way of fighting wars in aerial, ground, maritime, and underwater domains. Public and private companies have also vigorously researched these vehicles and used them for a wide range of tasks, from search-and-rescue operations to building inspections. Navigating these vehicles typically involves the use of...
Topics: Tracking, relative, unmanned vehicles, autonomous vehicles, error, control, offset.
The objective of this work is to present aspects about the already completed development stages of a monitoring system for agrometeorological application that uses Human-Computer Interface controlled by written and spoken languages. Technologies related to the development of this type of HCI have been increasingly used and are gradually more connected to the most diverse devices and machines including fieldwork uses. This interdisciplinary work is supported by research in the areas of...
Topics: Unmanned Vehicles, Digital Agriculture, Severe Weather, Linguistic, Agriculture Applications
Unmanned vehicles (UVs) are expected to be an integral part of the U.S. Navy's expeditionary and carrier strike groups and are quickly being integrated into maritime operations. Command and control issues must be resolved, however, in order to utilize unmanned systems as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets. The purpose of this research was to assess the current doctrine of mission tasking with respect to tactical unmanned vehicles (UVs) and determine a method for effectively...
Topics: Command and control, Command and control systems, Mission tasking, UAV, USV, UUV, Unmanned...
This report covers the first year of research and development for the Intelligent Multi-UxV Planner with Adaptive Collaborative/Control Technologies (IMPACT) program. The goal of IMPACT is to integrate autonomous technologies like cooperative control algorithms, intelligent agents, and autonomics frameworks with human-autonomy interfaces to support effective supervisory control of multiple heterogeneous unmanned vehicles (UxVs) in dynamic operating environments. With IMPACT, the human-autonomy...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Behymer,Kyle, Infoscitex Corp. Beavercreek, unmanned vehicles, algorithms,...
In this thesis, we designed, simulated, and analyzed a wireless communications system for an autonomous unmanned vehicle system. The system used for the design context is the Unmanned Vehicle (UV) Sentry, which is a system of autonomous unmanned vehicles that can be tasked for a variety of missions that involve the patrolling and protecting of a geographical region. Accordingly, the communications network needs to allow for flexibility of the vehicle topography to enable large amounts of delay...
Topics: unmanned vehicles, UV Sentry, WiMAX, 802.16, 802.16j, Relay, Multihop, Simulink, Medium access...
The Army requires a method of deploying a GPS Pseudolite to several hundred or thousand feet altitude to provide augmented GPS signals. To meet this need Carolina Unmanned Vehicles, Inc. is developing the Helikite Elevated Platform (HEP), consisting of a small tethered blimp mounted in a special Carrier that allows operation by a single person. It can be towed by a HMMWV or other small vehicle. HEP may also be used for Differential GPS support to enhance areas such as helicopter all weather...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Rogers, Michael E, CAROLINA UNMANNED VEHICLES INC RALEIGH NC, *GLOBAL POSITIONING...
Discrete event simulations for futuristic unmanned vehicle (UV) systems enable a cost and time effective methodology for evaluating various autonomy and human automation design parameters. Operator mental workload is an important factor to consider in such models. We present that the effects of operator workload on system performance can be modeled in such a simulation environment through a quantitative relation between operator attention and utilization, i.e., operator busy time used as a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Donmez,Birsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge United States,...
U.S. Special Operations forces require secure and reliable network communications for Command and Control (C2) when operating in austere environments, such as enemy combatant or disaster relief operations. During these operations, current communication procedures present a significant risk to network operators who must be physically present to construct tactical networks. An extensive amount of research has been conducted utilizing unmanned ground, air, and surface vehicles to extend...
Topics: Mesh networking, control link, direction finding, directional antennas, self-aligning antennas,...
Precision Engagement Strategic Context for the Long War
Topics: DTIC Archive, National Defense Industrial Association Arlington United States, precision bombing,...
Autonomous vehicle teams have great potential in a wide range of maritime sensing applications, including mine countermeasures (MCM). A key enabler for successfully employing autonomous vehicles in MCM missions is motion planning, a collection of algo-rithms for designing trajectories that vehicles must follow. For maximum utility, these algorithms must consider the capabilities and limitations of each team member. At a minimum, they should incorporate dynamic and operational constraints to...
Topics: optimal control, optimal search, mine countermeasures, motion planning, autonomous vehicles,...
Viewgraph/Briefing Charts
Topics: DTIC Archive, National Defense Industrial Association Arlington United States, DRONES, RANGES...
Autonomous vehicle teams have great potential in a wide range of maritime sensing applications, including mine countermeasures(MCM). A key enabler for successfully employing autonomous vehicles in MCM missions is motion planning, a collection of algorithms for designing trajectories that vehicles must follow. For maximum utility, these algorithms must consider the capabilities and limitations of each team member. At a minimum, they should incorporate dynamic and operational constraints to...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Kragelund,Sean P, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, MOTION PLANNING,...
The military is on the cusp of a major technological revolution, in which warfare is conducted by unmanned and increasingly autonomous weapon systems. This exploratory study considers the state-of-the-art of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and robot technologies, and their potential future military implications for autonomous (and semiautonomous)weapon systems. Although no one can predict how AI will evolve or how it will affect the development of military autonomous systems, we...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Ilachinski,Andrew, Center for Naval Analyses Arlington United States, ARTIFICIAL...
This thesis reports on the evolved design, test, and integration of a robotic manipulator consisting of multiple modular links, which enable the reconfiguration of the manipulator system for differing mission requirements without constructing unique hardware for each experimental campaign. The evolved design replaced custom components with commercial components to improve performance, standardize hardware, and reduce assembly time. Additional links were constructed and assembled into a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Drew,Jerry II V, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA MONTEREY United States,...
Navigation without external beacon systems has been a long-standing goal within the autonomous systems community. Terrain-aided navigation (TAN) presents an alternative to external localization but requires a prior map. In many cases, the unmanned vehicle (UV) is surveying areas where no map exists and therefore TAN cannot be employed. Active terrain-aided navigation (ATAN) incorporates reinforcement learning (RL) into TAN to reduce the dependence on a prior map. The spatial and temporal...
Topics: machine learning, artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, autonomous systems, robotics,...
Is China trying to build a String of Pearls in the Indian Ocean My hypothesis is that China is not looking to build large overseas military bases in the Indian Ocean. With the revolution in military affairs and improvements in C4ISR over the last twenty years, international military bases are no longer as critical to intelligence collection and force projection as they were during the 20th century. This reduces the necessity of overseas bases to primarily serve as logistics hubswhich can be...
Topics: China, String of Pearls, Overseas bases, Military Strategy, Maritime Strategy, Energy Futures of...
The development of self-driving vehicles is being pursued worldwide. The use of autonomous cars could improve the flow of traffic and also decrease the number of accidents caused by drivers' errors. The military is interested in deploying autonomous ground vehicles (AGV) for operations in areas that pose risks to personnel. However, current AGVs are not mature enough for widespread adoption. Most of the AGV sensors cannot determine the vehicles location when adverse conditions, such as heavy...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory Lexington United States,...
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Small unmanned systems provide great utility to military applications due to their portable and expendable design. These systems are, however, costly to develop, produce, and maintain, making it desirable to integrate available commercial off the shelf (COTS) components. This research investigates the integration of COTS components through the development of a modular unified command and control (C2) architecture for heterogeneous and homogeneous vehicle teams to accomplish formation flocking...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Gray,Jeremy, Air Force Institute of Technology Wright-Patterson AFB United States,...
Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Take the Human Out of the Loop. The United States government needs to develop and employ lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS) on the battlefield. There are two main arguments that this paper will explore: first, robots are potentially more proficient than humans on the battlefield and second, the United States needs to employ LAWS because other countries already are and the US needs to set the international example. Humans are inferior to robots in warfare and this paper...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Del Re, Amanda, Naval War College Newport United States, robots, UNMANNED VEHICLES,...
Joint Perspectives on Precision Engagement
Topics: DTIC Archive, National Defense Industrial Association Arlington United States, precision bombing,...
Unmanned Vehicles December 2014 January 2015
Topics: unmanned, uas, systems, uav, vehicles, data, technology, uavs, textron, operations, unmanned...
A ground-penetrating radar system enhances an autonomous vehicles ability to know its position on a roadway even when other approaches fail.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Stanley,Byron M, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington United States, ground penetrating...
Unmanned Vehicles August september 2014
Topics: unmanned, uav, systems, uas, payload, uavs, vtol, sensor, auv, vehicles, unmanned vehicles,...
Unmanned Vehicles February March 2015
Topics: unmanned, uav, uas, systems, airspace, aircraft, maritime, uavs, payload, flight, unmanned...
Adaptive autonomous systems of interest to DoD have great potential to complement human performance in a wide range of missions. This particularly is true for adaptive systems that learn those whose behavior on a given set of inputs may change over time, even after the system has been fielded. However, such adaptation makes exhaustive testing, certification, and licensure of the final system impossible.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Tate,David M, Institute for Defense Analyses Alexandria, unmanned vehicles,...
In the past decade, unmanned systems have significantly impacted warfare worldwide. They have extended human reach via persistent capabilities, offering warfighters more options to access sensitive and hazardous environments at a speed and scale beyond manned capability. However, current unmanned systems operate with minimal autonomy. To meet warfighter needs and increase military utility, future unmanned systems must have increased autonomy to reduce the cognitive load, improve performance...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Clark,Matthew, OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (RESEARCH AND...
The use of autonomous weapon systems (AWS) in warfare is not a new concept. One could argue that the development and integration of such systems have evolved over the last century and accelerated significantly after the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attacks on the U.S. homeland. AWS will likely continue to grow in both capabilities and numbers. This growth of unmanned systems is not limited to the U.S. military or even the United States; it is an international phenomena that includes government and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Caton,Jeffrey L, ARMY WAR COLLEGE CARLISLE BARRACKS PA CARLISLE BARRACKS, unmanned...
The purpose of this MBA report is to explore and understand the issues involved in the DODs acquisition process for Unmanned Maritime Systems (UMS) in order to recommend a new acquisition approach or solutions that would allow the military to keep pace with the rapid unmanned technology development cycle found in the commercial industry. We find that current UMS acquisitions are utilizing previous acquisition reforms, but could benefit from additional contractor peer competition and peer...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Driscoll,Thomas, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, military...
This study addresses the usability of the Applied Robotics for Installations and Base Operations (ARIBO) Autonomous Warrior Transport On-base (AWTO) rider reservation and reminder system mobile application, called ARIBO Mobile. ARIBO is an on-demand transportation system that will allow Soldiers to reserve a vehicle for a specified time and at predefined pick-up and drop-off locations throughout the medical campus at Ft Bragg, North Carolina. The mobile application allows riders to request...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Schaefer, Kristin E, US Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground United...
This report supports the advanced development of the US Army Robotic Wingmans Joint Capabilities Technology Demonstration software-in-the-loop (SIL) simulation testbed. It is a collaboration including the US Army Research Laboratory, US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, and Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division. The purpose is to provide advanced software development, rapid prototyping, and early assessment and training of Warfighter teaming within...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Schaefer,Kristin E, US Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground United...
At the request of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD(AT and L)), the Defense Science Board (DSB) conducted a study on the applicability of autonomy to Department of Defense (DoD) missions. The study concluded that there are both substantial operational benefits and potential perils associated with the use of autonomy. Autonomy delivers significant military value, including opportunities to reduce the number of warfighters in harms way, increase the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, David,Ruth A, Defense Science Board Washington United States, autonomous systems,...
Truly autonomous operation for any field robot relies on a well-defined pyramid of technical competencies. Consider the case of an autonomous car - we require the vehicle to be able to perceive its environment through noisy sensors, robustly fuse this information into an accurate representation of the world, and use this representation to plan and execute complex tasks - all the while dealing with the uncertainties inherent in real world operation. Of fundamental importance to all these...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Baldwin,Ian, University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom, robots, OPTICAL DETECTORS,...
The Army requires a method of deploying a GPS Pseudolite to several hundred or thousand feet altitude to provide augmented GPS signals. To meet this need Carolina Unmanned Vehicles, Inc. is developing the Helikite Elevated Platform (HEP), consisting of a small tethered blimp mounted in a special Carrier that allows operation by a single person. It can be towed by a HMMWV or other small vehicle. HEP may also be used for Differential GPS support to enhance areas such as helicopter all weather...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Rogers, Michael E, CAROLINA UNMANNED VEHICLES INC RALEIGH NC, *PLATFORMS, *GLOBAL...
The NDIA C4ISR Division will convene the 6th Annual Disruptive Technologies Conference as a forum of discussion and opportunity for government and industry senior technologists, product engineers and strategists to focus upon technology enduced game changing military capabilities. Avenues to proficiently deliver these new capabilities into the warfighters hands will also be discussed. Conference Goal: To enable rapid development and fielding of new warfighting capability.
Topics: DTIC Archive, National Defense Industrial Association Arlington United States, military...
Modularity in military vehicle design is generally considered a positive attribute that promotes adaptability, resilience, and cost savings. The benefits and burdens of modularity are considered by studying historical programs dating back to World War II. Using a taxonomy developed at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, vehicles were considered based on horizontal modularity, vertical modularity, and distributed modularity. Examples were given for each...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Dasch,Jean M, Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center...
When most people think of national security and the global war on terrorism, they often focus on the activities taking place in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, the war on terrorism is genuinely global and is being fought in many places beyond U.S. Central Commands area of responsibility in the Middle East and the Horn ofAfrica. From Asia to South America, service members are pursuing multiple strategies to prevent the planning and execution of terrorist attacks. These strategiesinvolve working...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Purdy,Ellen M, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and...
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