Advancing Autonomous Systems: An Analysis of Current and Future Technology for Unmanned Maritime Vehicles

Abstract

The U.S. Navy is interested in developing autonomous capabilities to execute tasks that are increasingly hazardous for humans and to enhance warfighting capabilities. This report focuses on two Navy platform classesunmanned undersea vehicles and unmanned surface vehiclesand explores the potential for increasing the numbers and capabilities of autonomous Navy systems. The report examines both the technological development of such systems and the warfighting requirements of the Navy. The authors analyze the following four areas: the current state of the art of autonomous technology, current kill chains and capabilities, future fleet architecture and its autonomous capabilities, and autonomy in alternative concepts of operation.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Jan 01, 2019
• Accession Number: AD1086472

Entities

People

• Bradley Martin
• Cedric Kenney
• Danielle C. Tarraf
• Jacob Deweese
• Jon Schmid
• Paul Deluca
• Thomas C. Whitmore

Organizations

• RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aircrafts
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence Software
• Automata Theory
• Autonomous Systems
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
• Autonomous Vehicles
• Cognitive Systems Engineering
• Collision Avoidance
• Computer Vision
• Control Systems
• Detection
• Digital Data
• Engineers
• Guidance
• Information Processing
• Information Science
• Motion Planning
• Naval Operations
• Navy
• Network Science
• Seabed
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Readers

• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
• Systems Analysis and Design
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy