Unmanned Cooperative Cueing and Intervention

What Is It?

The Unmanned Cooperative Cueing and Intervention (UC2I) effort addresses behaviors and autonomy that enable heterogeneous unmanned vehicles to cooperatively accomplish a typical mine reconnaissance mission.

How Does It Work?

Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) and unmanned surface vehicles (USV) work together by sharing information from each other’s sensors to cooperatively and adaptively conduct a mine reconnaissance mission. The sharing of information leverages the different sensor types and vehicle characteristics to accomplish more than what could be done by independent vehicles working separately.

 

What Will It Accomplish?

A combination of unmanned systems working together will quicken and improve the mission results, as well as take the Sailor/ Marine out of the minefield.

  • Reduced risk to the Sailor/Marine
  • Reduced detect-to-engage mine countermeasure (MCM) timelines
  • Increased area coverage rates over individually operated unmanned vehicles

The Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Unmanned Cooperative Cueing and Intervention (UC2I) Program is a Future Naval Capabilities (FNC) effort that leverages from other FNC programs and products including: the Autonomous Operations FNC, Intelligent Autonomy products, Undersea Search and Survey products, and other products in the mine countermeasures FNC. UC2I is also complemented by small business innovative research efforts providing innovation in situational awareness, launch and recovery, and human system interface development.

ONR’s UC2I program will develop collaborative autonomous behaviors to enable the following unmanned vehicle to work cooperatively together. The USVs will conduct mine reconnaissance and mine sweeping. The UUVs will conduct mine identification and neutralization. By working as a team, the unmanned vehicles will increase their effectiveness up to 30 percent over the sum of their individual efforts.

 

 

Research Opportunities:

  • Information sharing between unmanned vehicles in bandwidth limited communication channels
  • Cooperative autonomy behaviors between unmanned vehicles
  • Robust algorithms that perform in most environments

Daniel Deitz
(703) 696-0557
daniel.deitz@navy.mil

 

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