An Autonomous Intelligent Radar System (AIRS) deployed on a surveillance aircraft is briefly described. A Net-Centric compliant approach for integrating AIRS is presented. An overview of unmanned autonomous air vehicle research is provided along with a discussion of some of the issues with integrating AIRS aboard these vehicles.

Unmanned robotic vehicles are capable of performing desired tasks in unstructured, uncertain and potentially hostile environments. They may be remotely-operated or function (semi-) autonomously without human intervention. However, it will long before unmanned robot vehicles function as completely autonomous entities in diverse environments. Current unmanned vehicles adhere to different levels o...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the impact of increasing automation replanning rates on operator performance and workload when supervising a decentralized network of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles. BACKGROUND Futuristic unmanned vehicles systems will invert the operator-to-vehicle ratio so that one operator can control multiple dissimilar vehicles connected through a decentralized network. Sig...

This paper proposes the result of hardware in the loop simulation (HILS) for performance evaluation about a small attitude heading reference system (AHRS) based micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) suitable for small unmanned underwater vehicle. Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) have many applications in scientific, military, and commercial area due to its autonomy and the navigation system ...

In this paper, the integration of driving simulator and unmanned vehicle by means of new concept for better performance is suggested. But, autonomous navigation system is one of the most difficult research topics from the point of view of several constrains on mobility, speed of vehicle and lack of environmental information. In these day, however, many innovations on the vehicle provide the app...

Sensor-centric navigation of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) operating in rugged and expansive terrains requires the competency to evaluate the utility of sensor information such that it results in intelligent behavior of the vehicles. In this paper, we propose an entropic information metric for the above purpose where entropy is used to quantify the probabilistic uncertainty in sensor measurem...

This paper is the first in a two-part series that introduces an easy-to-implement central command architecture for high-order autonomous unmanned aerial systems. This paper discusses the development and the second paper presents the flight test results. As shown in this paper, the central command architecture consists of a central command block, an autonomous planning block, and an autonomous f...

This paper presents a mission management architecture for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles. An outline of a mission specification scheme is also presented. Elements of the mission management architecture and the mission specification scheme are described and illustrated using a reconnaissance scenario.