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USIC Tutorial
Monday, October 27,
2008
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Unmanned Vehicle
System (UVS) Interoperability:
A Manager’s Guide to the UVS Universe
The purpose of this tutorial is to provide a
comprehensive overview of the interoperability challenges facing
the unmanned and robotics systems community. The tutorial will
address hardware, software, and organizational interoperability
problems and the various standards in which to solve them. The
discussion will focus on the following segmentation of the
problem space:
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· Intra-system
– component level interoperability issues (to enable
interchangeable parts within an unmanned system)
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· Inter-system
– interoperability between different unmanned or robotic
systems, which are required for such systems to cooperate
and perform complex missions in the battlespace, or disaster
space
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· Interaction
with manned systems – unmanned and robotics systems must
interoperate with a wide variety of manned platforms,
weapons systems, and C4ISR systems
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· Interaction
with personnel “on scene” – whether first responders in a
civil emergency, troops operating/working in theater or
combat, etc., and in a wide variety of situations such as
logistical support, casualty evacuation, manned/unmanned
combined arms operations, etc.
These concepts will be discussed in the
context of three use cases:
·Robotics Systems
for First Responders – developing a robotic platform that can
complete different missions, and have different interchangeable
functional components – such as an arm for explosive ordinance
disposal, or an arm that can open door handles and locks
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Protection and Physical Security – UV Sentry
– fleet force protection using unmanned systems (or an unmanned
road-side check-point that can visually and chemically examine a
vehicle, identify faces, etc.)
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Battlefield Extraction of the Wounded – for
example the Nightingale II concept, which uses unmanned and
robotics systems to perform this task
Speaker List
Michael Beebe, U.S. Army Telemedicine and
Advanced Technology Research Center
William Bennett, National Robotics Training
Center
Don Jones, Mesa Robotics, Inc.
Chris Mailey, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific
David Rousseau, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific
Jeffrey Wallace, Carpe Occasio Technology
Systems LLC
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