Machine Intelligence

Abstract

The objective of this effort was to produce technologies that could reduce manpower requirements and improve response times of future command and control (C2) systems through research in machine learning. This in-house research effort explored various areas of machine learning to produce technologies capable of supporting future C2 systems. Machine learning has the potential to reduce manpower requirements, reduce decision cycle times, and improve the robustness of C2 systems. However, many obstacles, such as intractability in large state spaces, prevent the application of these technologies to practical C2 problems. The goal, then, was to research and develop innovative technologies that overcome said obstacles and enable the application of machine learning to relevant C2 problems. This goal was achieved through the research and development of new state space abstraction and feature selection algorithms. Theoretical and empirical results of this effort were published to refereed conferences and showcased in technology demonstrations. In this document, we detail our approaches and report our results in improved scaling of reinforcement learning via feature set reduction and state space abstraction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA580353

Entities

People

  • Nathaniel Gmelli
  • Robert Wright
  • Steven Loscalzo

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Dimensionality Reduction
  • Feature Selection
  • Information Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Mesh Networks
  • Neural Networks
  • Range Finders
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space