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ASI Technology Creates Smart Autonomous UGVs Why Wait?
FY2034 UGV Solutions Are Available Today! The 2009 DoD Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap for Ground Systems expects solutions for UGV by 2015 and 2034 which are available now using ASI proven technology. ASI began solving autonomous unmanned vehicle problems in 1992 with the Pilot’s Associate followed by the Apache Longbow Rotorcraft Associate and the X-45 J-UCAS UCAV projects in 1998, the Air Traffic Management project in 2000, AUCTIONEER™ in 2001, the SATS Cockpit Associate in 2003 and the current FCS/Brigade Modernization program. The autonomous unmanned vehicle behaviors developed in these programs are fully applicable to UGV and ground battlefield environments. Why Wait? 2009 DoD Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap Performance and Technologies with ASI advanced UXV solutions in red. 2009 DoD Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap UGV Performance and Technologies
UGV Collaboration ASI autonomous air, ground and marine vehicle collaboration technology was developed in 2001 which solved the teaming within a domain, collaboration across domains, and teamed collaboration. The Auctioneer™ technology provides collaboration between multiple autonomous, unmanned vehicles with decentralized distributed control. It is designed to solve dynamic battlefield problems in a peer-to-peer ad hoc network with intermittent communications. ASI technology features fast self-organizing capabilities and fast resolution of problems in dynamic air environments coupled with the most efficient use of all the available resources unmanned or manned in the battlefield. Auctioneer™ provides 2034 solutions today.
BACK TO TOP UGV Mission Complexity ASI’s PreAct® is the cognitive engine of choice in providing highly advanced autonomous adaptive tactical behaviors when coupled with knowledge from domain experts. Highly complex behaviors can be provided and easily extended without rewriting software. Situation Assessment, Activity Planning, Intent Interpretation, Action Dispatching, Information Management, Error Management and Plan/Goal/Knowledge Sharing modules are all integrated within the PreAct® engine speed the solution to adaptive tactical behaviors. ASI technology is designed to integrate all battlefield elements for coordinated actions of unmanned and manned air, ground and marine assets. Autonomous adaptive tactical behaviors are available today.
BACK TO TOP UGV Environmental Capability ASI’s PreAct® based intelligent solutions allow autonomous ground systems to overcome problems and successfully achieve mission objectives in extreme all-weather conditions and environmental difficulties. PreAct® smart systems are onboard (not tele-operated) so they can be designed to carry the expertise of your most knowledgeable personnel to interpret sensor inputs and select the best actions to solve local environmental problems whether in the air on the ground or in the water. ASI intelligent systems are designed to respond to environment changes in highly dynamic battlefield conditions. With a PreAct® “brain” executable and successful solutions even with environmental difficulties can achieve mission goals.
BACK TO TOP UGV OPSEC One of the greatest advantages of onboard intelligent systems based on ASI’s PreAct® technology is that virtually all upper level “thinking” can be accomplished right on the unmanned air system without the need for out –bound communication. Thus the autonomous vehicle can have a very low signature and avoid detection by hostile forces. Instructions can be received by multiple UGVs and through each system’s situational awareness coordinate actions to achieve complex mission goals. When outbound communication is needed highly compact intelligence is transmitted through burst spread spectrum techniques rather than streaming raw data, thus maintaining a low OPSEC signature. An onboard brain solves many of OPSEC most difficult signature problems.
BACK TO TOP UGV Operational Control Advanced smart unmanned ground systems based on ASI’s PreAct® technology allows onboard intelligence to solve difficult operational control problems. Once the tele-operational link is not required a fully autonomous ground system can work independent of any human control thus allowing human controllers to focus simply on mission goals rather than lower level platform, sensor, or payload operations. Thus a fleet of unmanned vehicles can be sent on a mission, collaborate to achieve the mission even in highly dynamic environments and return to base all with only a single operator. This force multiplier can have a profound influence on the way unmanned systems are deployed in a battlefield environment.
BACK TO TOP UGV Bandwidth Management Autonomous bandwidth management is easy with ASI’s PreAct® technology. Since very little bandwidth is needed with onboard smart systems the need for bandwidth allocation is greatly reduced. Instead of transmitting detailed sensor data or vehicle performance information to a remote human controller the smart technology transmits only highly compact intelligence, only as needed and at times optimal to maintain a low signature profile. Instead of receiving detailed tele-operational control signals smart technology solves operational and mission objective problems onboard without the need for external communications. This allows battlefield bandwidth demands to be greatly reduced.
BACK TO TOP UGV Mission Endurance Embedded expertise and the ability to respond to environmental and situational changes allows ASI’s PreAct® based systems to extend missions from hours to years. The collective knowledge of multiple domain experts can be entered into “thinking”, smart systems to deal with any problem just as a human would. Given appropriate robotic tools even routine systems analysis, maintenance and refueling can be performed. Mission endurance is thus not limited by human control factors but by the durability of the unmanned hardware.
BACK TO TOP UGV Maintenance Intelligent analysis based upon ASI’s PreAct® technology can automate systems analysis and maintenance given appropriate sensors and manipulative tools. Smart “thinking” systems can include the best analysis and maintenance techniques from your experts. The ability to reason about a system problem onboard an unmanned ground vehicle can greatly improve the chances of identifying and correcting system problems before deployment, of completing a mission even with system failures or of the successful return of the vehicle to a friendly force controlled area if the vehicle is damaged.
BACK TO TOP UGV Awareness ASI’s PreAct® systems moves awareness from simple sensor data transmitted back to a human operator to complete onboard situational awareness and intelligent autonomous actions. Actionable information not only is used by onboard smart systems to carry out mission goals but situational intelligence can be transmitted in highly compact communication bursts to other unmanned ground and air vehicles, and humans to increase overall success of battlefield plans. Intelligent systems can reason about what actionable information is most important and transmit only intelligence useful to other battlefield participants thus reduce bandwidth requirements and likely detection. Situation Assessment, Activity Planning, Intent Interpretation, Action Dispatching, Information Management, Error Management and Plan/Goal/Knowledge Sharing modules are all integrated within the PreAct® engine to insure the highest level of awareness and the ability to act upon the current situation. ASI understands that most robotic systems are “sensory deprived” thus the need for greater intelligence onboard. However, as new sensors are developed and deployed PreAct based systems are easily expanded to accommodate new sensors. PreAct based systems only adds to existing software rather than requiring an entire software system to be rewritten.
BACK TO TOP UGV Maneuverability ASI’s PreAct® technology is designed to execute vehicle controls in real-time in a highly dynamic battlefield environment. Activity Planning, Situation Assessment, Intent Interpretation, Action Dispatching, Information Management, Error Management and Plan/Goal/Knowledge Sharing modules are all integrated within the PreAct® engine to insure the highest level of awareness and the ability to act in real time upon the current situation. Coupled with ASI’s proven autonomous air, ground and marine vehicle collaboration technology developed in 2001 teams of teams can collaborate across domains to achieve mission goals and objectives. The Auctioneer™ technology provides collaboration between multiple autonomous, unmanned vehicles with decentralized distributed control. It is designed to solve dynamic battlefield problems in a peer-to-peer ad hoc network with intermittent communications. ASI technology features fast self-organizing capabilities and fast resolution of problems in dynamic air environments coupled with the most efficient use of all the available resources unmanned or manned in the battlefield.
BACK TO TOP UGV Survivability Intelligent fully-autonomous systems based upon ASI’s PreAct® technology can solve the most difficult of the UGV survivability problems. The ability to react to a rapidly changing urban combat environment and “understand” intent of hostile forces in real-time allows UGVs to take actions to protect themselves and human team members. With onboard intelligence rather than tele-operation UGVs can hide in low signature stealth mode until their services are needed. The ability of ASI intelligent systems to collaborate across all battlefield assets whether machine or human improves survivability of the entire mission team.
BACK TO TOP UGV Environment ASI’s PreAct® based systems were designed to easily shift from associate systems where humans are involved in making decisions to fully autonomous systems where humans are involved only in providing basic mission goals and relationships with other battlefield assets. Intelligent systems incorporate human expertise, knowledge and wisdom in constructing the cognitive system. This expertise coupled with the PreAct engine abilities in Situation Assessment, Activity Planning, Intent Interpretation, Action Dispatching, Information Management, Error Management and Plan/Goal/Knowledge Sharing creates a system which can be human-like in its abilities to deal with environmental issues.
BACK TO TOP UGV Mechanical Systems Intelligent systems based upon ASI’s PreAct® technology will be needed to control integrate mechanical systems into upper level cognitive controls. Smart control systems will be able to allocate robotic capabilities to achieve goals within the limits of the system’s performance parameters.
BACK TO TOP UGV Dexterity Highly intelligent control is needed for human-like and super manipulator dexterity. PreAct® technology provides the situational awareness needed for such refined control in an autonomous system.
BACK TO TOP UGV Navigation Smart systems based ASI’s PreAct® technology can incorporate the best navigation systems with the best human expertise to provide intelligent, reliable ground navigation which is highly adaptive to the terrain, battlefield conditions, and a stealth environment. ASI systems are designed to continue execution of mission goals even in the situation of communication or GPS signal loss. Onboard intelligent systems can solve complex navigation problems without the need for high signature transmissions to human controllers.
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