Focused Knowledge to the Warfighter
Abstract
The future dismounted battlespace will require an unprecedented level of automation (software and physical agents) to ensure situational awareness. Soldier directed information management agents, organic autonomous, and semi-autonomous ground and air sensor platforms along with dismounted soldiers must function as a tightly coupled team. These information management functions include operations on global information sources, in particular the fusion of relevant local and global information. Physical agents, such as robotic sensor platforms, will be ubiquitous in the future battlefield, significantly lowering the risks to our warfighters. These physical agents are to complement future manned systems and therefore they must be able to collaborate not only amongst themselves but also with their manned partners. The information from local organic sensor platforms and human assets must be fused to provide enhanced situational understanding. This situational understanding will be further enhanced with the fusion of global information and provided to the dismounted warfighter in a highly intuitive form for rapid assimilation and action. The Army Research Laboratory has recently demonstrated this concept of real time fused information supporting the dismounted infantry. This paper will present the Warrior's Edge information fusion concept, architecture, and demonstration results.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA466548
Entities
People
- Philip J. Emmerman
- Randy Woodson