Goblin
Abstract
The undersea domain has significant importance to national security and military operations, however, manned missions are restricted in their operational ranges. The Goblin program seeks to enhance U.S. autonomous capabilities in the challenging undersea domain by enabling complex underwater systems able to search, locate, and execute mission objectives without the need for human control. Navigation approaches will focus on the use of commercial, low-cost navigation hardware combined with environmental feature-based algorithm approaches to eliminate reliance on GPS for long duration missions. Key Goblin technical challenges include sensing techniques that provide high-resolution navigation without GPS, perception and effector strategies for objects with unknown parameters, long-duration autonomy approaches to support mission execution, and autonomy approaches that do not rely on human interaction. The anticipated transition is to the U.S. Navy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- c596b79b8c35ba4f0e26becd8e55ec35