Tier-scalable reconnaissance: the future in autonomous C4ISR systems has arrived: progress towards an outdoor testbed
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Univ Arizona, Coll Engn, Visual & Autonomous Explorat Syst Res LabIssue Date
2017-05-18Keywords
Autonomous (CISR)-I-4 systemssmart service systems
multi-tiered architectures
robotic agents
navigational behavior motifs
sensor-data-fusion framework
objective anomaly detection
target prioritization
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SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERINGCitation
Wolfgang Fink, Alexander J.-W. Brooks, Mark A. Tarbell, James M. Dohm, "Tier-scalable reconnaissance: the future in autonomous C4ISR systems has arrived: progress towards an outdoor testbed", Proc. SPIE 10194, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications IX, 1019422 (18 May 2017); doi: 10.1117/12.2257333; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2257333Rights
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
Autonomous reconnaissance missions are called for in extreme environments, as well as in potentially hazardous (e.g., the theatre, disaster-stricken areas, etc.) or inaccessible operational areas (e.g., planetary surfaces, space). Such future missions will require increasing degrees of operational autonomy, especially when following up on transient events. Operational autonomy encompasses: (1) Automatic characterization of operational areas from different vantages (i.e., spaceborne, airborne, surface, subsurface); (2) automatic sensor deployment and data gathering; (3) automatic feature extraction including anomaly detection and region-of-interest identification; (4) automatic target prediction and prioritization; (5) and subsequent automatic (re-) deployment and navigation of robotic agents. This paper reports on progress towards several aspects of autonomous (CISR)-I-4 systems, including: Caltech-patented and NASA award-winning multi-tiered mission paradigm, robotic platform development (air, ground, water-based), robotic behavior motifs as the building blocks for autonomous telecommanding, and autonomous decision making based on a Caltech-patented framework comprising sensor-data-fusion (feature-vectors), anomaly detection (clustering and principal component analysis), and target prioritization (hypothetical probing).ISSN
0277-786XVersion
Final published versionae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1117/12.2257333