High-level Closed-loop Fusion and Decision Making with INFORM Lab

Abstract

The INFORM Lab testbed allows experimenting with high-level distributed information fusion dynamic resource management and configuration management, given multiple constraints on the resources and their communications networks. The paper describes the architecture, the concepts of goals and situation evidence, algorithms for distributed information and dynamic resource management, and auto-configurable information fusion architectures. The testbed provides general services which include a multi-layer plug-and-play architecture, and a general multi-agent framework based on John Boyd's OODA loop. The testbed?s performance is demonstrated on scenarios/vignettes for 2 types of Coastal Wide Area Surveillance scenarios/vignettes: a cooperative search-and-rescue effort and a non-cooperative smuggling scenario. INFORM Lab's usefulness as a research and teaching tool are also discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA547060

Entities

People

  • Adel Guitouni
  • Hans Wehn
  • Jens Happe
  • Pierre Valin

Organizations

  • DRDC Valcartier

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Automatic Identification Systems
  • Command And Control
  • Communication Networks
  • Configuration Management
  • Data Fusion
  • Detectors
  • Formal Languages
  • Maneuvers
  • Military Operations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Resource Management
  • Search And Rescue
  • Surveillance
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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