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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 99 - Boulder - March 2007
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Government Agencies Summary Reports 4.2.4 US Navy 4.2.4.1 NAWCAD S&T
Title	NAWCAD S&T
Presenter	Marc Steinberg
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Abstract	The Intelligent Autonomy program is focusing on mission management of 5-10 heterogeneous unmanned vehicles of 3-5 types from a common control station. The current team includes Draper Laboratory, Georgia Tech., NAVAIR, Pax River, Lockheed Martin, Univ. of Pennsylvania, NSWC, Panama City, GD Robotic Systems, UC, Berkeley, NUWC, Newport, CRA, MIT, Aptima, and Univ of IA. Draper Laboratory completed an Integrated Simulation Demo of 4 UUV's (high-fidelity sim) & 2 UAV's with improved search optimization and comms tasking, increased ability of operator to provide guidance on risk management to autonomous system and to automate risk assessment and mitigation, increased ability to deal with weather, contingencies, environmental data, improved visualization of plans/execution, and integration with external sources, sensor fusion, GDRS Image Understanding Software, and NAVAIR Virtual Warfare Environment (JIMM). The overall team developed set of 20 human system performance metrics that can be tailored for each of the IA demonstrations and related programs The navy conducted operator evaluation of IA software with 7 operators and planning additional naval operator evaluations for FY07. Lockheed developed design to integrate Lockheed, Draper, CRA, Aptima, UPenn, and Georgia Tech components into the ICARUS system via a publish/subscribe component to enable team planning for UAVs, USVs, and UUVs and a limited capability baseline was demonstrated. University of Pennsylvania developed and tested a Secondary Task Optimization Component with Receding Horizon & Sampling-Based Techniques and an approach for Verification and Validation of Multi-Vehicle Planning Software. Georgia Tech performed design, development, and evaluation of Case-Based Reasoning/Contract Net Protocol approach for rapid tasking of unmanned systems. U.C. Berkeley completed flight test at Camp Roberts of 4 UAV's with distributed control despite limited communications. Two Phase II STTR's with CRA/MIT and Aptima/Univ. of Iowa recently started in mission plan understanding/assessment. New efforts for FY07 include a MURI on Human-Robotic Interaction, SBIR's on Collaborative & Shared Control of Unmanned Systems, Affect-Based Computing and Cognitive Models for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, and Peer-to-Peer HRI, and a new EC program Large Tactical Sensor Network.