Developing an Overwatching Fires Mission for a Team of Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Abstract

One of the goals of the U.S. Army Ground Robotics Research Program is to develop individual and group behaviors that allow the robots to contribute to tactical missions such as interdiction and reconnaissance. By using simulation tools, we are able to develop, debug and test behaviors before porting them to actual robotic platforms. Simulation tools allow researchers to evaluate behavior performance in many environments, some of which may be difficult or dangerous to duplicate in an actual hardware test. This report describes our initial efforts to develop an over watching fires mission for team of robotic platforms. The report concludes with a discussion of possible extensions to the basic tool.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA516334

Entities

People

  • Mary Anne Fields

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Battlefields
  • Command And Control
  • Control Systems
  • Environment
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Mobility
  • Observers
  • Robots
  • Simulations
  • Unmanned
  • Unmanned Ground Systems
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs