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Chasing Autonomy: How Much is Enough and How Much is Too Much?
Taken from the Abstract: "UxS have become almost ubiquitous in U.S. military operations today, but many still wonder how they will be effectively integrated into the existing force, to succeed as a force multiplier rather than just a force enabler. To these observers, the DoD FY 2013-2038 Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap s vision of merging unmanned systems from air, ground, and sea domains into teams of unmanned and manned systems that beyond autonomous mission execution to autonomous mission performance, remains a work in progress. We argue that advanced, effective autonomy is a cornerstone of the Integrated Roadmap s future vision. More than this, budget realities especially spiraling personnel costs make autonomy an absolute necessity if unmanned systems are to be sustainably integrated into the joint force. With this imperative, the Department of Defense is making tangible progress; recent technology developments in computational intelligence and multi-sensor data fusion hold the promise of making the military s vision of autonomy a reality."
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego (U.S.)
Volner, Rachel; Galdorisi, George, 1948-
2014-06
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Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER): FY11 Annual Report
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) provides a collaborative environment and community of interest for the advancement of unmanned systems education and research endeavors across the Navy (USN), Marine Corps (USMC) and Department of Defense (DoD). CRUSER is a Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) initiative to build an inclusive community of interest on the application of unmanned systems (UxS) in military and naval operations. This FY11 annual report summarizes CRUSER activities in its startup year of 2011, and highlights future plans.
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Englehorn, Lyla
2011-12-22
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Mission Planning for Heterogeneous Uxvs Operating in a Post-Disaster Urban Environment
From the thesis abstract: "Time is critical during search and rescue operations, as human survival diminishes exponentially if survivors are not located and recovered efficiently. This thesis sought to integrate technologies into a solution that helps rescuers plan for a mission utilizing multiple autonomous unmanned systems (UxV) for search operations. It exploits methods of image analysis to fuse data into a common map and identify key areas of search interest. The key mission areas were developed by comparing edge detection techniques on images obtained from remote sensing platforms in the DigitalGlobe database. Together with close-up snapshots of the environment obtained from drones, three-dimensional maps were developed by stitching the images together into a comprehensive model for a mission commander's use. With the mission bubbles developed, a probabilistic road map was used to develop an optimal trajectory to the search area. It was found that by connecting to the 20 nearest neighboring points in the K-dimensional graph instead of all the points, and using the weighted heuristic method for the A* search, formed the most optimal means to obtain a solution. Together with a tool to generate search patterns for multiple drones, an experiment at Camp Roberts was conducted successfully. Technology was effectively used in the development of a mission-planning tool utilizing a set of heterogeneous unmanned systems for a search mission, which can be expanded for various types of military applications."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Tan, Choon Seng Leon Mark
2017-09
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Cruser News [October 2012]
This newsletter from the Naval Postgraduate School's (NPS) Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) contains the following articles: "Passive UxV Navigation Using Visual Sensors"; "Legal Implications of Autonomous Weapons Systems"; "Qualitative Metrics for Autonomy"; and "Warfare Innovation Workshop".
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
2012-10
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Navy Warfare Development Command's NEXT Magazine, Spring 2013
This is the inaugural edition of the 'Navy Warfare Development Command's NEXT Magazine' for Spring 2013. Included in this issue are the following articles: "Learning Lessons from Hurricane Sandy" by Howard Link, Dylan Montes, and Richard Schultz; "What if…? The NWDC [Navy Warfare Development Command] 'Free Radicals' of the CNO [Chief of Naval Operations]'s Rapid Innovation Cell are Asking Questions" by Richard Hencke; "NWDC's CSG [Carrier Strike Group] 360 Degree War Game: Ready for the Fleet" by David K. brown and Jim Bock; and "FLEX [Fleet Experimentation] to Spearhead UxS Tests: Unmanned Systems Experimentation Campaign to Study Mine Warfare and Force Protection" by Jeremy Tyler.
Navy Warfare Development Command (U.S.)
2013
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