Development of Intelligent Unmanned Systems

Abstract

This final report describes the technologies designed and developed by the University of Florida (UF) in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). An off road vehicle (Fig. 1) and a hybrid Toyota Highlander (Fig. 2) have been automated and instrumented with pose estimation (GPS and inertial) and object detection (ranging (LADAR), vision and light detection) sensors. The control architecture consists of four primary elements, i.e. Planning Element, Perception Element, Intelligence Element, and Control Element. The architecture is implemented on a system distributed over ten single-board computers that intercommunicate via the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) version 3.2 protocol.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA549273

Entities

People

  • Carl D. Crane
  • David G. Armstrong

Organizations

  • University of Florida

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Grids
  • Machine Learning
  • Motion Planning
  • Navigation
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Simultaneous Localization And Mapping
  • Test Facilities
  • Three Dimensional
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems

Readers

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  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects