Development, Test, and Evaluation of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems in a Simulated Wide Area Search Scenario: An Implementation of the Autonomous Systems Reference Architecture

Abstract

The implementation and testing of autonomous systems is challenging due to the inherent design complexity, infiinite test spaces, and lack of autonomy specific measures. This research instantiates the Autonomous System Reference Architecture (ASRA) on a wide area search (WAS) scenario as a test bed to study the reusability of ASRA and evaluate the system's ability to achieve efficient WAS and make decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 26, 2020
Accession Number
AD1100608

Entities

People

  • David I. King
  • Katherine Cheney

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Experimental Design
  • Information Science
  • Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Network Science
  • Operations Research
  • Systems Engineering
  • Target Recognition
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Software Engineering.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers