Goblin
Abstract
The undersea domain has significant importance to national security and military operations, but manned missions are restricted in their operational ranges. The Goblin program will enhance U.S. autonomous capabilities in the challenging undersea domain by developing and demonstrating complex underwater systems able to search, locate, and execute mission objectives without the need for human control. Navigation approaches will focus on the use of commercial, low-cost navigation hardware combined with environmental feature-based algorithm approaches to eliminate reliance on the Global Positioning System (GPS) for long-duration missions. Key Goblin technical challenges include sensing techniques that provide high-resolution navigation without GPS, perception and effector strategies for objects with unknown parameters, long-duration autonomy approaches to support mission execution, and autonomy approaches that do not rely on human interaction. The anticipated transition is to the Navy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 912ac5c2142e73a27962f0dbf8344f7f