Unmanned and Autonomous System Test
Abstract
Supporting every domain of warfare and poised to support the vast variety of missions, Unmanned and Autonomous Systems (UAS) are operating in space, in air, on land, on sea, undersea and in sub-terrain conditions. The emergence of robotics and other forms of UAS in the battlespace brings a host of revolutionary capabilities that will profoundly influence warfare. The Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Test (UAST) Technology Area addresses current and emerging challenges associated with the test and evaluation of these critical warfighting assets. UAST is developing test technologies to stimulate, instrument, measure, and assess the capability of an autonomous system to perceive its environment, process information, adapt to dynamic conditions, make decisions, and effectively act on those decisions. A principal tenant of UAST is to provide the test technologies that will effectively measure performance and characterize risk, thereby increasing the warfighter's trust in autonomous systems. Current DoD test capabilities and methodologies are insufficient to address the testing of increasingly autonomous units and teams of unmanned systems operating in unstructured dynamic battlespace environments. Furthermore, advancements are being made in developing system-of-autonomous-systems, working in concert as a swarm or pack and in close proximity with humans. New test technologies are needed to stress the collective set of autonomous systems under realistic conditions, predict emergent behavior of autonomous systems, emulate the complex environment, and assess mission performance of these highly coupled systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 7_0603941D8Z_3_0400_PB_2012
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- Root: Test and Evaluation/Science and Technology
- Child Accomplishment: Unmanned and Autonomous System Test