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ASI Technology Creates Smart
Autonomous Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles Why Wait?
FY2034 Unmanned Vehicle Solutions Are Available Today! The 2009 DoD Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap lists 9 future empowering technologies and 12 future Unmanned System/Vehicle abilities to be solved by 2034. 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. ASI can provide 2034 solutions today. Why Wait? 2009 DoD Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap Performance and empowering Technologies with ASI advanced UXV solutions in red. DoD 2009 Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap Capabilities and Technologies
UXV 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, ground and sea 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 UXV 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 sea assets. Autonomous adaptive tactical behaviors are available today.
BACK TO TOP UXV Environmental Capability The DoD Roadmap lists Environmental Capability in both the UXV Abilities and Empowering Technology requirements. ASI’s PreAct® based intelligent solutions allow autonomous air, ground and sea 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 UXV 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 communication out. Thus the autonomous vehicle can have a very low signature and avoid detection by hostile forces. Instructions can be received by multiple UASs 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. Intelligent systems can operate in stealth mode until engaging the enemy. An onboard brain solves many of OPSEC most difficult signature problems.
BACK TO TOP UXV Operational Control Advanced smart unmanned air, ground and sea 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 vehicle system can work independent of any human control thus allowing human controllers to focus simply on mission goals and strategies 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 UXV Bandwidth Management Autonomous bandwidth management is easy with ASI’s PreAct® technology. Since very few transmissions are needed with onboard smart systems the need for bandwidth allocation is greatly reduced. Instead of transmitting detailed sensor data for situational awareness 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 UXV 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 onboard 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 UXV 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 air 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 given heavy damage from unfriendly fire.
BACK TO TOP UXV 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 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 UXV Signature Management ASI autonomous systems are designed to provide unmanned vehicles with the ability to carry out covert operations and provide self-concealing behaviors. Intelligent systems can quickly asses the situation in highly dynamic environments and take action to preserve and hide itself in order to carry out mission goals. Since fully autonomous systems can operate without tele-control low signature operation is easily obtained. Once in place hidden intelligent autonomous systems can remain in low power drain, stealth mode for days, weeks or months without betraying transmissions.
BACK TO TOP UXV World Model ASI autonomous systems technology is designed to operate in a highly representative, dynamic world. Multiple data inputs are easily accommodated and preferred to give the best and most accurate decision support to humans or to operate fully autonomous cognitive systems. ASI systems can “think” about intent and adjust actions based upon highly complex world models.
BACK TO TOP UXV Communication ASI systems can provide the intelligence to operate high speed network communications. The same engine that can control platform movements, sensor analysis, and tool control to provide a fully autonomous system can also be used to control communications.
BACK TO TOP UXV Human Detection ASI technology is designed for multiple data input in highly dynamic situations. ASI has already designed a complex chemical and biological sensor control and analysis system which can “think” like a human in solving detection problems. This system is able to greatly reduce false positives and negatives by analyzing other sensor inputs; thus resolving issues onboard and making the entire system highly independent of human intervention. Biomimetic systems present no significant issues with ASI technology.
BACK TO TOP UXV Human-Robot Interaction ASI has an extensive history of providing excellent human-machine interaction. ASI systems are designed around associate system concepts and thus provide easy conversion of permissions from “machine advisory only” to “fully autonomous machine actions”. ASI engineers incorporate human factors in presenting intelligent, highly-pertinent information to humans rather than simple data screens. This allows the machine to do what it does best and the human to do what humans do best.
BACK TO TOP UXV 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.
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