Research Summaries

Back A-RATS: Autonomous Robotic Adversarial Target System That Extend Marksmanship Training to Live Fire Ranges

Fiscal Year 2011
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department Modeling, Virtual Environments & Simuation Institute
Investigator(s) Becker, William J.
Sponsor Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary The DOD is challenged with providing high throughout, realistic, firearm training and performance assessment. Ideally, the setting for training should be variable and include theater-realistic terrain: from dessert to forest, mountain to valley, and both rural and urban settings. Ideally, targets should simulate the behavior of enemy combatants: working in teams, engaging in evasive maneuvers, and counter-attacks. Recent advances in robotic systems provide unique opportunities for creating intelligent, mobile, interchangeable target platforms to address the armed forces training needs. Rather than taking the soldiers to the training, robotic targets can take the training to the soldiers. Furthermore, the construction of robotic targets provides data acquisition platforms that can be integrated with, and deeply inform, the modeling and simulation activities currently underway to support troop training. Deploying robotic target systems also provides rich opportunities for scientific and technological advances in artificial intelligence, secure communications, autonomous targeting, advanced lightweight armor materials, automated rules of engagement, behavioral studies, and sensor and detectors.
Keywords Robot Robotics Target Marksmanship
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