Modeling manned and unmanned systems
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Authors
Blais, Curtis L.
McGregor, Don
Subjects
Modeling
simulation
unmanned systems
human behavior modeling
robotic systems
simulation
unmanned systems
human behavior modeling
robotic systems
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Date of Issue
2016-09
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Publisher
Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
Unmanned systems are being introduced rapidly into operational forces. However, there is little capability in modeling the performance of manned systems and unmanned systems to distinguish the two, making it impossible, currently, to use simulation for analysis of future manned/unmanned system force mixes and most effective levels of autonomy for unmanned systems. The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, California, was sponsored by the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Joint Ground Robotics Enterprise (JGRE) in Fiscal Year 2016 (FY16) to explore (1) enhancement of robotics education; (2) improved representation of robotic systems in combat simulations; and (3) interoperability standards for military robotics systems. This report discusses work performed in FY16 to investigate the state-of-the-art in modeling human and unmanned systems, current challenges in such modeling, and to prototype new approaches in an existing analytical simulation, the Combined Arms Analysis Tool for the 21st Century (COMBATXXI) used by the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps. The project also initiated investigation of existing government-off-the-shelf robotics software frameworks for possible use in simulating unmanned systems in the combat simulation. Those software systems and the status of work performed are also presented in this report.
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Technical Report
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Department
MOVES Institute
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NPS Report Number
NPS-MV-16-002
Sponsors
Secretary of Defense Joint Ground Robotics Enterprise, 3090 Defense Pentagon, Room 5C756, Washington, DC 20301
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Citation
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.