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ASI Technology Creates Smart
Autonomous Collaborative USV and UUVs Why Wait?
FY2034 USV and UUV Solutions Are Available Today! The 2009 DoD Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap for Surface and Underwater Systems expects solutions for USV and UUV by 2015 and 2034 which are available now using ASI proven technology. ASI began solving these 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/Battalion Modernization program. The autonomous unmanned vehicle behaviors developed in these programs are fully applicable to USV and UUV maritime battlefield environments. Why Wait? 2009 DoD Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap Performance and Technologies with ASI advanced USV and UUV solutions in red text. 2009 DoD Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap Maritime Capabilities and Technologies
USV UUV 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 sea, air and shore 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 USV UUV 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 surface and underwater maritime, air, and shore assets. Autonomous adaptive tactical behaviors are available today.
BACK TO TOP USV UUV Environmental Capability ASI’s PreAct® based intelligent solutions allow autonomous sea, air and shore 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 water, under the water, in the air or on the shore. 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 USV UUV 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 surface or underwater system without the need for communication transmission from the vehicle. Thus the autonomous maritime vehicle can have a very low signature and avoid detection by hostile forces. Broadcast instructions can be received by multiple USVs and UUVs, and through each system’s situational awareness and ASI collaborative technology each sea, air and shore system can coordinate actions to achieve complex mission goals. In stealth mode sea vehicles can operate in total quiet until needed in accomplishing a mission goal. Long term surveillance is easily accomplished since raw data is processed onboard and only when a event occurs does the intelligent system take action. When outbound communication is needed then highly compact intelligence is transmitted through burst spread spectrum techniques rather than streaming raw sensor or control data for remote human use, thus maintaining a low OPSEC signature. An onboard “brain” solves many of OPSEC most difficult signature problems.
BACK TO TOP USV UUV Operational Control Advanced smart unmanned maritime 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 surface or underwater system can work independently 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 USV UUV Bandwidth Management Autonomous bandwidth management is easy with ASI’s PreAct® technology. Since very few outbound communications are needed with onboard smart systems very little bandwidth allocation is needed. Instead of transmitting detailed sensor data for situational awareness and systems conditional information to a remote human controller ASI 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 USV UUV 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 USV UUV 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 surface or underwater vehicle can greatly improve the chances of identifying and correcting system problems before deployment, of completing a mission even with system failures, and successfully returning to a friendly force controlled area even with damage.
BACK TO TOP USV UUV 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 underwater, surface vessels, air systems 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 USV UUV Obstacle Avoidance ASI autonomous systems are built around technology that evaluates the world state and creates solutions to dynamic problems. Dynamic obstacle avoidance presents no problem given sensor inputs. With an intelligent system fewer sensor inputs are required since the intelligent system can potentially extract more usable information from a sensory deprived robot system.
BACK TO TOP USV UUV Recognition ASI’s PreAct® systems have been successfully applied to intelligent identification problems. The ability to reason beyond simple data and asses the situation as well as interpret intent allows ASI’s intelligent systems to identify and rank targets for possible action, thus deploying assets in the most efficient and productive manner.
BACK TO TOP USV UUV 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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