Realizing Autonomy via Intelligent Hybrid Control: Adaptable Autonomy for Achieving UxV RSTA Team Decision Superiority (also known as Intelligent Multi-UxV Planner with Adaptive Collaborative/Control Technologies (IMPACT))

Abstract

Agility in tactical decision-making and mission management is a key attribute for enabling teams of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles (UxV) to successfully manage the fog of war with its inherently complex, ambiguous, and time-challenging conditions. This agility requires effective operator-autonomy teaming including the achievement of trusted collaboration and the flexible, high-level tasking required for team task sharing and decision superiority. A tri-service team has conducted Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (ASD/R and E) sponsored research focused on instantiating an Intelligent Multi-UxV Planner with Adaptive Collaborative/Control Technologies (IMPACT) by combining flexible play calling for task delegation, bi-directional human-autonomy interaction, advanced cooperative control algorithms, intelligent agent reasoning, and autonomic technologies to enable effective single operator command and control (C2) of cooperative multi-UxV missions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 30, 2018
Accession Number
AD1048921

Entities

People

  • Allen Rowe
  • Bryan Croft
  • Clayton D. Rothwell
  • Dakota Evans
  • Derek Kingston
  • Doug Lange
  • Elisabeth Frost
  • Gloria Calhoun
  • Greg Trafton
  • Heath Ruff
  • Jessica Bartik
  • Jessie Y. Chen
  • John Reeder
  • Kyle Behymer
  • Laura Humphrey
  • Mark Draper
  • Michael Barnes
  • Michael Patzek
  • Sarah Spriggs
  • Scott Douglass
  • Thomas Apker

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Systems
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Information Science
  • Psychology
  • Software Testing
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control