Research Summaries

Back Future ASW Concepts for Swarm Unmanned Systems

Fiscal Year 2013
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Systems Engineering
Investigator(s) Chung, Timothy H.
Sponsor Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DoD)
Summary The convergence of capabilities in emerging unmanned systems, including greater embedded computing resources, smarter network-centric architectures, and lower costs for increasing numbers, merit and demand the development of future concepts employing large teams of autonomous agents to dramatically impact the operational effectiveness of military missions. An example of such an emerging need is the security of the undersea battlespace in anti-submarine warfare (ASW) contexts. The deployment and efficient employment of large teams of ASW assets, such as a swarm of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) has the potential to not only address possible capability gaps of the present, but also to engage and defeat operational challenges of the future. This research leverages efforts at the Naval Postgraduate School by the principal investigator in the areas of search theory and detection and modeling, analysis, simulation, and experimentation of swarms of aerial robots.
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