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“Now that’s flying first class”

“Now that’s flying first class”. (1990 advertisement for 100% Colombian coffee). Bridging the Gap between Technology and Military Operations. Air Applications. Sea Applications. Ground Applications. Mission Tasks. Ensemble Behaviors.

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“Now that’s flying first class”

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  1. “Now that’s flying first class” • (1990 advertisement for 100% Colombian coffee)

  2. Bridging the Gap between Technologyand Military Operations AirApplications SeaApplications Ground Applications Mission Tasks Ensemble Behaviors Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited - 1477

  3. Swarm Behaviors forMilitary Operations AirApplications SeaApplications Ground Applications Mission Tasks Functions and MOEs/MOPs Behavior Functionality Ensemble Behaviors Comms Resources Sensor Resources Processing Resources Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited - 1477

  4. Issue for SDR:Identification of “Killer App” • Application for which DR is not just a feasible solution, or a good solution, but is the best solution, or preferably the only solution • Critical issue: avoid peripheral technical challenges • Impossible sensor and communications requirements • User pull is for Camera On Wheels (“COW”) • Small, but not Many • Minimal software, implicit behavioral requirements

  5. Application CharacteristicsFavoring a DR Solution • Intrinsic need for parallelism • Not only to speed up the process • Example: Preventing mobile targets from hiding behind objects to evade detection • Need for expendability • Repetitive performance of sometimes-fatal act • Example: UXO PUCA (Pick Up and Carry Away) • Need for “dedication” • Need for “agents” to be simultaneously present at multiple specific sites • Examples: • UXO BIP (Blow In Place) • Establishment and maintenance of a network of communications relays • Detection of intruders at multiple possible entry points

  6. More Application CharacteristicsFavoring a DR Solution • Crisp user view of system-level functionality • Well-defined and comprehensible to the user • Support tasking, monitor, override, assessment • Above the level of individual robots’ activities • Example: “coverage” paradigm • Minimal ancillary technical challenges: no “long-pole” peripheral technical challenges, so can focus attention and resources on the DR issues • Example: mobility requirements limited to smooth flat surfaces (building interiors) • Example: tractable mission-critical sensor requirements (AP Landmine detection fails this test) • Example: communications link and sensors for micro-UUVs

  7. Overall Issuesfor Distributed Robotics • What’s the DR “killer app”? • What are the precise metrics for a given application? • What exactly is the system really supposed to accomplish? • The goal is effective group action • “Effective” may or may not imply “coordinated” • “Coordinated” may or may not imply “cooperative” or “collaborative” • Development is the big hump • Bigger challenges than in the deployed system • Communications to support debugging, reprogramming • Power to support T&E (i.e., rechargeable)

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