Automated Battle Management
Abstract
(U) The Automated Battle Management program developed novel technologies for multi-platform, automated battle management at the tactical level, in the air, the sea, on the ground, and within mobile sensor networks. Such technologies enable U.S. forces to keep up with the increasing pace of battle as more-capable platforms and higher-bandwidth communication networks become operational. (U) The Collaborative Networked Autonomous Vehicles (CNAV) effort was the primary demonstration of Automated Battle Management techniques. CNAV developed autonomous control methods to cause a distributed set of unmanned undersea vehicles to self-organize and distribute tasks through judicious transactions conveyed over a shared communications network. CNAV utilized these capabilities to provide submerged target detection, localization, and tracking in restrictive littoral waters. CNAV created a field of vehicles, networked through acoustic wireless communications. The vehicles worked collaboratively and autonomously to detect, classify, localize and track target submarines transiting the field. The field was capable of self-organizing to adapt to changes in target locations, environmental conditions, and operational factors.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- d6cfa73fed93e7d0ea96add6929cfa76
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