Architectural Considerations for Single Operator Management of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Abstract

Recently, small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have become ubiquitous in military battlefield operations due to their intelligence collection capabilities. However, these unmanned systems consistently demonstrate limitations and shortfalls with respect to size, weight, range, line of sight and information management. The United States Air Force Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan 2009-2047 describes an action plan for improved UAS employment which calls out single operator, multi-vehicle mission configurations. This thesis analyzes the information architecture using future concepts of operations, such as biologically-inspired flocking mechanisms. The analysis and empirical results present insight into the engineering of single-operator multiple-vehicle architectures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA518058

Entities

People

  • Gabriel T. Bugajski

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Birds
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Employment
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Information Processing
  • Measurement
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction
  • Autonomy - UAVs