The time required to plan Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPV) missions can be greatly reduced by the application of technology currently available. Additionally, the effectiveness of these missions can be increased significantly. The application of expert system based processing of near real time intelligence, route planning techniques, and high resolution graphics to the RPV mission planning process can result in an integrated planning aid that accomplishes both a savings in planning time and an increase in mission effectiveness. Expertise in RPV mission planning is acquired by the repetitive performance of planning and observing actual RPV missions. The requirements for these systems are driven by mission requirements, and are often heavily derived from the tools available. The new tools suggested will have a significant impact on the planning process. The development of the system suggested will require participation by these experts. The most time consuming part of an RPV mission planning exercise is the collection and assimilation of relevant intelligence data. These data include enemy threat tactical, communication, and situation data, as well as friendly tactical, communication, and situation data. A system that collects and filters these data was demonstrated. The heart of this system, the Intelligence-Driven Mission Planning Station (IMPS), successfully provided relevant intelligence data for the Wild Weasel defense suppression mission. The combination of onboard sensors and stored terrain data bases have made possible the development of algorithms that select optimum routings for air-to-ground penetration missions. Optimal route generation can first be exercised in the ground based mission planner, and the resulting data can be used to provide onboard mission replanning. The graphics required to plan an effective RPV mission quickly include plan view, God's-eye view, perspective view, and analytical statistical graphs. All these capabilities were successfully developed, demonstrated, and delivered in the form Battle Area Simulation (BATS) software package.
Intelligence-Driven RPV (Remotely Piloted Vehicles) Mission Planner
1989
8 pages
Report
No indication
English
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