Autonomous Control of Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles: Design of a Multimodal Control and Flight Planning Framework for Agile Maneuvering

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 74-95 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Control ◽  
Flight Planning ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles ◽  
Air Vehicles

Multi-Vehicle Missions

2008 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Johan Baltié ◽  
Eric Bensana ◽  
Patrick Fabiani ◽  
Jean-Loup Farges ◽  
Stéphane Millet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Constraint Programming ◽  
Management System ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Air Defense ◽  
Mission Management ◽  
Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles ◽  
Air Vehicles

This chapter deals with the issues associated with the autonomy of vehicle fleets, as well as some of the dimensions provided by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution. This presentation is developed using the example of a suppression of enemy air defense mission carried out by a group of Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV). The environment of the Mission Management System (MMS) includes the theatre of operations, vehicle sub-systems and the MMS of other UCAV. An MMS architecture, organized around a database, including reactive and deliberative layers is described in detail. The deliberative layer includes a distributed mission planner developed using constraint programming and an agent framework. Experimental results demonstrate that the MMS is able, in a bounded time, to carry out missions, to activate the contingent behaviors, to decide whether to plan or not. Some research directions remain open in this application domain of AI.

Autonomous control of uninhabited air vehicles

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Mackey ◽  
Han Park ◽  
Mark James ◽  
Forest Fisher ◽  
Richard Colgren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Control ◽  
Air Vehicles

Global Needs for Jet-Engine-Steered (JES) Strike Drones vs. Lack of Updated Textbooks to Design 6th Generation UCLASS Due to UCAV Failure

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Gal-Or
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Jet Engine ◽  
Main Text ◽  
Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles ◽  
Operational Modes ◽  
Air Vehicles

AbstractGlobal fight against terror, and the rapidly changing geopolitical situations, raise hot debates on urgently needed new designs and operational modes of efficient, low-cost, Jet-Engine-Steered (JES) strike drones, and about the expected roles of future UCLASS (Unmanned, Carrier-Launched, Surveillance & Strike), while current UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles) have failed to perform the needed strike missions. The role of the jet-engine community in this rapidly unfolding geopolitical situation is reviewed in the main text and in the Appendix.

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