Lockheed Martin Corporation

Robert J Szczerba

Abha Moitra

Boris Yamrom

Robert Marcel Mattheyses

Louis John Hoebel

Virginia Ann DiDomizio

Stephen J DeMarco

Ira S Glickstein

Rosemary DeSantis Paradis

John Moody

Peter N Stiles

Adam L Jung

Douglas R Burdick

Joel J Tleon

Nader Mehravari

Stephen Mitchell Jameson

Brent Appleby

Jerry L Franke

Michael C Dapp

Chris A Bodenhorn

Paul W Thurm

Joseph H Visgitus

Wei Kang Zhan

Dale E DelNero

Peggy J Galkowski

A system predictively determines data transmitted within a wireless network in accordance with a mission plan and changes to the mission plan. The system includes a first team member and a second team member. The first team member includes a first module for evaluating the changes to the mission plan encountered by the first team member and determining whether to transmit information of the change to the second team member. The first team member further includes a second module containing rules for evaluating changes to the mission plan encountered by the first team member. The first module utilizes the rules of the second module to predictively alter the mission plan.

System for predictively managing communication attributes of unmanned vehicles

A system maintains communication between a plurality of unmanned vehicles within an environment. The system includes a sensor component and an evaluator. The sensor component senses objects within the environment. The sensor component is located on a first unmanned vehicle. The evaluator evaluates data from the sensor component. The evaluator is located on the first unmanned vehicle. The evaluator compares data for the first unmanned vehicle and a second unmanned vehicle and determines whether a trajectory of one of the first and second unmanned vehicles may be modified to maintain communication between the first unmanned vehicle and the second unmanned vehicle.

System for maintaining communication between teams of vehicles

A system controls a team of vehicles. The system includes a plan dependency identifier, a contingency monitor, and an alert formulator. The plan dependency identifier analyzes a mission plan and identifies mission constraints of the mission plan. The contingency monitor continuously reviews execution of the mission plan for violations of the mission constraints. The alert formulator determines whether a part of the mission plan is threatened by a violation of one of the mission constraints.

Hierarchical contingency management system for mission planners

A system in accordance with the present invention tasks a team of autonomous unmanned vehicles. The system includes a first team member and a second team member. The first team member has a first level of autonomy. The second team member has a second level of autonomy. The first level of autonomy is different than the first level of autonomy. The first team member is given instructions corresponding to the first level of autonomy. The second team member is given instructions corresponding to the second level of autonomy.

Mission planning system for vehicles with varying levels of autonomy

A system collaboratively and autonomously plans and controls a team of vehicles having subsystems within an environment. The system includes a mission management component, a communication component, a payload controller component, and an automatic target recognition component. The mission management component plans and executes a mission plan of the team and plans and executes tasks of the vehicles. The communication component plans communication and networking for the team. The communication component manages quality of service for the team. The communication component directs communication subsystems for the team and for the vehicles. The payload controller component directs and executes sensor subsystems for the team and for the vehicles. The automatic target recognition component processes and fuses information from the sensor subsystems and from the vehicles for use by the mission management component.

System for intelligently controlling a team of vehicles

A method routes a predefined number of entities () through a predetermined area for scanning the content of the predetermined area. The method comprises the steps of: partitioning the predetermined area into a first set of cells (); grouping the first set of cells () into a number of corridors () equal to the number of entities (); determining a starting cell for each entity () in each corridor (); initiating a scan of cells of each of the corridors () from the starting cell of each of the entities () and determining the content of each of the scanned cells; and determining a total cost for each entity () to travel to each of the scanned cells scanned by each entity () and performing a scan from each of the scanned cells by each entity ().

Real-time team coordination system for reconnaissance and surveillance missions

A system collaboratively and autonomously plans and controls a team of unmanned vehicles within an environment. A mission planning component creates a mission plan for a plurality of members of the team of unmanned vehicles. The mission planning component creates a task plan for each member based on the mission plan. A collaboration component assigns members to the team and roles for the assigned members. The collaboration component updates membership and roles of the members based on the changing situation of the environment. A situational awareness component evaluates the changing situation of the environment based on information from the assigned members of the team. A contingency management component monitors the changing situation of the environment. The contingency management component monitors changes of capabilities of the assigned members of the team and execution of the mission plan and task plans. The contingency management component determines whether to update any of the group consisting of the mission plan and the task plans. A vehicle management component controls movement of each assigned member based on the task plan of each assigned member.

Collaborative system for a team of unmanned vehicles

A system ensures safety and security of teams of collaborative autonomous unmanned vehicles in executing a mission plan. The system includes a plurality of components, a first device, a second device, and a third device. The plurality of components perform situation analysis, mission planning, mission replanning, mission plan execution, and collaboration between the autonomous unmanned vehicles. The first device identifies safety critical components of the plurality of components. The second device identifies security sensitive components of the plurality of components. The third device isolates the safety critical components from contamination by other components of the plurality of components. The third device isolates security sensitive data from contaminating non-security sensitive components of the plurality of components.

System for controlling unmanned vehicles

A system evaluates a first data cleansing application and a second data cleansing application. The system includes a test data generator, an application execution module, and a results reporting module. The test data generator creates a dirty set of sample data from a clean set of data. The application execution module cleanses the dirty set of sample data. The application execution module utilizes the first data cleansing application to cleanse the dirty set of sample data and create a first cleansed output. The application execution module further utilizes the second data cleansing application to cleanse the dirty set of sample data and create a second cleansed output. The results reporting module evaluates the first and second cleansed output. The results reporting module produces an output of scores and statistics for each of the first and second data cleansing applications.

Framework for evaluating data cleansing applications

A system processes asynchronous requests from members of a team of autonomous unmanned vehicles. The system includes a user request interface for receiving a request from a single team member and a request manager for performing a task in response to the request and returning a result of the task to the user request interface. The user request interface transfers the result to the single team member without communicating to any other members of the team.

Mission planning system with asynchronous request capability

A system views results of a data cleansing application. The system includes a results visualization module and a learning visualization interface module. The results visualization module organizes output of the data cleansing application into a predefined format. The results visualization module displays the output to a user. The learning visualization interface module facilitates interaction with the data cleansing application by the user.

Visualization toolkit for data cleansing applications

A system and method of coordinating team members, each team member having a mission processor, in real time for continued coordinated operation in the absence of reliable communications between team members. Prior to a mission, each team member is provided with common programs and data for a mission, the data including identity of programs and data supplied to other team members and providing to each team member a pseudo random seed for use in conjunction with random functions. Each team member is provided with an initial set of conditions, whereby each team member performs deterministically to generate a same plan for itself and each of the other team members. Each team member monitors for a transmission event and responds to a transmission event by generating a re-planning operation, whereby each team member will produce a coordinated replan for itself and each other team member, whereby the team members remain coordinated. The monitoring can be detecting the presence or absence of a scheduled transmission from a team member, or receiving a transmission from a broadcast source, or receiving a transmission directed to team members from a headquarters, or receiving a commercial satellite broadcast, or maintaining a receiver for receiving a burst transmission from another team member or receiving a transmission indicative of a condition as reported by a team member.

Method for real-time team coordination with unrealiable communications between team members

A system predictively allocates bandwidth within a wireless network in accordance with a mission plan. The system includes a first team member and a second team member. The first team member predicts subsequent communication demand by the second team member in accordance with the mission plan. The second team member predicts subsequent communication demand by the first team member in accordance with the mission plan. The first team member is allocated a bandwidth commensurate with a predicted need of the first team member and a predicted need of the second team member. The second team member being allocated a bandwidth commensurate with a predicted need of the first team member and the second team member.

System for predictively and dynamically allocating communication bandwidth

A system evaluates a data cleansing application. The system includes a collection of records cleansed by the data cleansing application, a plurality of dirtying functions for operating upon the collection to introduce errors to the collection, and a record of the errors introduced to the cleansed collection. The plurality of dirtying functions produces a collection of dirty records.

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Robert J Szczerba