Environmentally Aware Drones: Automated Impacts Routing (AIR) Embedded into Drone Technology

Abstract

Military swarming is often encountered in asymmetric warfare where opposing forces are not of the same size or capacity. In such situations, swarming involves the use of a decentralized force against an opponent in a manner that emphasizes mobility, communication, unit autonomy, and coordination or synchronization. On a future battlefield, commanders will deploy intelligent autonomous systems (IASs) that can function in a swarm-like mentality. It is envisioned in 2040 that these IASs will pervade the battlefield. These systems must rapidly sense, react, and learn from the environment in which they function. This report describes the use of CCDC Army Research Laboratorys Automated Impacts Routing as a central part of an embedded system within an unmanned aerial system (or drone), as demonstrated during Phase I of a Small Business Innovation Research program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2019
Accession Number
AD1081738

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey O. Johnson

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Systems
  • Battlefields
  • Commerce
  • Control Systems
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dual Mode
  • Embedded Systems
  • Environment
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Military Research
  • Small Business
  • Three Dimensional
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Warfare
  • Xml

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Software Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - UAVs