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Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The unexpected increase in the complexity of command and control of future air operations that includes multiple classes of unmanned air vehicles with both sensing and strike capabilities and with multiple precision-guided weapons has given rise to DARPA's Mixed-Initiative Control of Automa-teams (MICA) Program. Planning and execution of multitarget missions for these platforms will be more complex. That complexity inheres not just in the large number of targets that must be prosecuted simultaneously by many teams of autonomous vehicles, but also in the likelihood that a continuously evolving target set may require multiple, dynamic replans of the teams' missions during the course of their execution. This report describes a prototype, closed-loop, dynamic planning and execution system and associated experimental results that address this challenge, the Mixed-Initiative Human System Interface (HSI) that supports operator participation in plan generation, plan execution, and situation awareness for teams of multiple, heterogeneous unmanned aircraft and some representative experimental results of applying that prototype in the context of the MICA program's Open Experiment Platform (OEP) simulation environment.