Agent-based multi-platform control, collaboration, and target hand-off
Norman P. Coleman, Ben Tirabassi, Doug MacKenzie · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2007
Deploying a world wide force that is strategically responsive and dominant at every point on the spectrum of conflict involves the cooperative system development and use of advanced technologies that yield revolutionary capabilities to support the war-fighters needs. This presentation describes an agent based control architecture and prototype implementation developed by ARDEC that enables command and control of multiple unmanned platforms and associated mission packages for collaborative target hand-off/engagement. Current prototypes provide the ability to remotely locate, track and predict the movement of enemy targets on the battlefield using a variety of sensor systems hosted on multiple, non-homogeneous SUAVs and UGVs.