A Minefield Reconnaissance Simulation

Abstract

The Navy plans to do covert reconnaissance of minefields with a remote underwater vehicle that includes two sensors, one long-range (LR) and one short-range (SR). LR can detect mines, but it cannot distinguish them from harmless mine-like objects. SR can tell the difference, but only by approaching to within short range. A program called MIRES (Minefield Reconnaissance Simulator) is implemented to answer the questions of how the vehicle should perform a search and to estimate the number of mines remaining in the area once the reconnaissance is over. MIRES investigates four modes of search; a planned search with departure to identify an object, a planned search with no departure, and two kinds of random search. It compares these types of search and identifies the best search mode for a given scenario.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA404616

Entities

People

  • Mauricio J. Machado Guedes

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programs
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Detection
  • Estimators
  • Guidance
  • High Density
  • Low Density
  • Minefields
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Random Variables
  • Reconnaissance
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Statistics
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.