Commonality of control paradigms for unmanned systems
Marc Gacy, David A. Dahn · 2006
One of the technical thrusts within the Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA) from the Army Research Laboratory has been to design, build, and experiment with new concept control systems that will allow a single human to simultaneously control multiple unmanned ground and air vehicles. We have developed both vehicle mounted and dismounted controllers that all provide a similar look and feel, with relatively equivalent control capabilities. The similarity in capabilities includes not only support functions such as map management and reporting, but the actual planning, tasking and control of the unmanned systems including small unmanned ground vehicles (SUGV), larger unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) and unmanned air vehicles (UAV).