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NPS Center for AUV Research Showcase Autonomous Vehicles
Submitted 6/6/2006 10:06:50 AM
Professor Tony Healey (second from left) and Cmdr. Doug Horner (left) co-principal investigators for the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Center for AUV Research showcase some of the autonomous vehicles that will be deployed in an upcoming field experiment. The 9-day series of experiments scheduled in June is an NPS and U.S. Special Operations Forces project that will field test operations of autonomous vehicles in a collaborative networking environment. The unmanned vehicles include three types of light weight aircraft, and two different unmanned ground vehicles with a mixture of onboard sensors that when combined create a full spectrum battlefield picture. Also in the experiment is a lighter than air platform. “The eventual goal is to combine different classes of unmanned vehicles working in a collaborative fashion,” said Horner.
Continued from left to right are: Hag Seong Kim; Sean Kragelund; NPS President Rear Adm. Richard Wells; NPS student Cmdr. Duane Davis; Dean Jim Kays; Prof. Don Brutzman; Kwang Song; NPS student Lt. Cmdr. Steve Vonheeder; NPS student Lt. Tyler Furukawa; NPS student Lt. Mike Dolbec; Jeff Weekley and Prof. Kevin Squire. (Released)
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