COMBAT VEHICLE ELECTRO
Abstract
This project matures, integrates, and demonstrates vehicle electronics hardware (displays, sensors, communications systems, and vehicle command/control/driving mechanisms) and software that result in increased crew efficiencies, performance, and/or reduced crew size, and reductions in vehicle maintenance costs. The project advances open system architectures for ground combat vehicles that allow more efficient crew stations to be adapted for a variety of ground platforms. Technical challenges include: increased levels of automation for both manned and unmanned systems, advanced user interfaces that support improved/increased span of control for robotic operations and collaborative vehicle operations, workload management, reliability of driving aids and commander's decision aids, and embedded simulation for battlefield visualization and fully integrated virtual test/evaluation. Additionally this project matures and demonstrates mobility technologies that reduce the weight as well as the operation and sustainment of ground vehicles, including advanced track and vehicle electronics and power. . The cited work is consistent with Strategic Planning Guidance, the Army Science and Technology Master Plan (ASTMP), the Army Modernization Plan, and the Defense Technology Area Plan (DTAP). Work in this project is performed by the Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC), Warren, MI, in conjunction with Army Research Laboratory - Human Resources Engineering Directorate (ARL-HRED), Aberdeen, MD.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 497_0603005A_3_2040_PB_2012
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