AvantGuard is an instrument with which researchers can study the interplay of human direction and autonomous behavior in conducting a simulated mission where a human supervises multiple autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV). AvantGuard is a computer game in which UAVs are used to protect a convoy moving through unsecured urban terrain under conditions of asymmetric conflict. Adversaries hide among the residents and prepare an ambush. The operator directs small UAVs and studies the resulting sensor stream to find the ambush before the convoy arrives in the trap. Autonomy is decomposed into four cognitive phases: look. see, decide, act. Each is matched to an exemplary task: sensor location, image analysis, threat assessment, and convoy rerouting. Each of these is independently assigned a Level of autonomy, or an adaptive strategy. Using sophisticated game techniques, a high-performance UAV simulation game prototype was developed , as well as the design for the experimenter interface.
AvantGuard: An Instrument to Explore Issues of Autonomy
2005
20 pages
Report
No indication
English
Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Navigation Systems , Missions , Autonomous navigation , Game theory , Image processing , Position(Location) , Threat evaluation , Urban areas , Reconnaissance , Adaptive systems , Unmanned , Detectors , Cognition , Uav(Unmanned air vehicles) , Adaptive autonomy , Supervisory controls , Sbir(Small business innovation research) , Sbir reports , Sbir phase 1 , Convoys
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