2019_programme: ENABLING AUTONOMOUS MINE COUNTERMEASURES FOR THE NATO ALLIANCE

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  • Session: 23. Mine countermeasures
    Organiser(s): N/A
  • Lecture: ENABLING AUTONOMOUS MINE COUNTERMEASURES FOR THE NATO ALLIANCE
    Paper ID: 927
    Author(s): Dugelay Samantha, Williams David, Furfaro Thomas, Melo Jose, Yordanova Veronika, Strode Christopher, Gips Bart, Pailhas Yan
    Presenter: Dugelay Samantha
    Presentation type: oral
    Abstract: As many more Nations actively transition their mine countermeasures (MCM) capability towards autonomous systems, the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) continues to research the utilisation of robotics in the minefield to deliver doctrinally relevant autonomy and on-board intelligence. \nThis review paper will present an oversight of the CMRE approach to autonomous mine countermeasures. In particular, this paper will highlight the development of specific enabling technologies regarding sensor development, automatic target recognition, autonomy, and in situ planning and evaluation. \nThese specialised and multi-disciplinary activities are brought together into a system-of-systems approach, which will enable future war fighting capability to adapt to mission specifics and environmental conditions. With a system-of-systems concept comes additional particularities and difficulties such as passing target location and its accuracy from one vehicle to another, collaborative autonomy, interoperability and the performance evaluation of a set of heterogeneous vehicles. \nThe paper will exemplify the advances of autonomous systems-of-systems MCM through experimental demonstration, results and collaborations with national partners throughout the years. Carefully chosen examples will underline the technical issues in bringing disparate systems together and the paper will offer some thoughts on the future research still required to develop fully autonomous MCM.\n
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  • Corresponding author: Dr Dugelay Samantha
    Affiliation: NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation
    Country: Italy
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