Low-cost Sensing and Autonomy Focus Area
Abstract
This focus area explores technologies and capability concepts to enhance situational awareness, reduce the time to make critical decisions, autonomously distribute tasking and orders, and protect warfighters through increased use of intelligent networks, autonomous sensing platforms, and human-machine collaborative systems. Selected projects target key capabilities that enable leap-ahead improvements in small distributed sensors and intelligent autonomous systems with cost-effective investments. These projects leverage advances in high- performance computing, miniaturization and new sensing modalities, and low-cost or attributable autonomous platforms across all domains. Examples include agile computer vision systems, enhanced capabilities for multiple autonomous systems to cooperatively interact, autonomous task discrimination and prioritization, autonomous operation in complex terrain, unattended sensors, data preprocessing to reduce bandwidth, and human-machine collaborative decision making providing faster-than-human response to threats. These projects also examine common software platforms and modular open architecture systems to reduce development cost, increase collaboration among manned and unmanned platforms, and inform requirements.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- af44b2e0b24ac1f1ab1a01b8dd501da2