Situation awareness for ground combat vehicles is being actively developed by the U.S. Army to enable soldiers and commanders to have a better understanding of their environments and hence allow them to fight smarter. The control of hit avoidance assets (sensors and countermeasures) by the Commanders Decision Aid (CDA) can also benefit from situation awareness data, either from offboard reports or onboard systems that support situation awareness. Such data can be used in an automated way to enhance threat typing as well as countermeasure selection, timing and control. Managing the hit avoidance data, by the CDA, can provide additional information to support onboard C4I useful to the manoeuvre force. This paper addresses the specific ways that the CDA - and vehicle survivability - can benefit from situation awareness data. The CDA and hit avoidance can strongly benefit from the use of situation awareness data. The CDA, moreover, can aid the crew and C4I with additional situation awareness data from the onboard hit avoidance sensors and from other vehicles hit avoidance sensors provided by their CDAs. Use of Dempster-Shafer reasoning in the CDAs threat typing greatly facilitates the use of situation awareness data (as well as data from other sources). The approach is robust even for cases of inconsistent or conflicting information.
Use of situation awareness data by the CDA to enhance ground combat vehicle survivability
Einsatz der Situationserkennung durch CDA (Befehlshaber-Unterstützung) zur Erhöhung der Überlebensfähigkeit von landgestützten Kampffahrzeugen
2009
15 Seiten, 9 Bilder, 7 Tabellen
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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