Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team (HART)
Abstract
The Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team (HART) program develops integrated tactical planning and sensor management systems for heterogeneous collections of manned and unmanned platforms operating in urban environments. HART employs a model-based control architecture with dynamic teaming and platform-independent command and control. The system registers new platforms with the battle manager (kinematics, maneuverability, endurance, payloads, and communications links) to facilitate platform-independent tasking. HART provides a commander's interface that allows collaborative tasking of the platforms in the form of operational missions, such as search, track, identify, or engage, rather than routes and events. Additionally, it supplies computationally intensive decision aids, such as advanced 4-D airspace and groundspace deconfliction tools, route planners, and task/platform assignment algorithms. The technology presents mission status and future courses of action to commanders for collaborative adjudication. HART enables augmentation of low-footprint, rapidly deployable, easily sustainable human command structures with teams of machines operating together. There is a Memorandum of Agreement in place with the U.S. Army for technology transition.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 674b2e3ae8e0227451ebb7acaac076ce