Large Platform Autonomy in Urban Environments

Abstract

This paper describes aspects of the Safe Operations of Unmanned Systems for Reconnaissance in Complex Environments (SOURCE) Army Technology Objective (ATO) that affect urban terrain autonomous mobility R&D programs. The SOURCE ATO provides essential large platform autonomous capabilities for executing unmanned reconnaissance missions, such as leader-follower, move-on-route, tele-operation, and remote situational awareness. The system includes multi-modal, high resolution, all-digital sensors which support nighttime and daytime operations. The SOURCE ATO development includes different classes of UGV vehicles as well as different classes of perception sensor technology. To date, the SOURCE ATO has successfully completed two out of three scheduled field experiments. The paper presents the latest SOURCE ATO results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA566762

Entities

People

  • Chip Diberardino
  • Dariusz Mikulski
  • Edward Mottern
  • N. J. Kott
  • Tracy K. Van Lierop

Organizations

  • General Dynamics

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Maneuvers
  • Navigation
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering
  • Teleoperation
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy