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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010

Filed:

Jul. 25, 2005
Applicants:

Dale E. Delnero, Endicott, NY (US);

Stephen J. Demarco, Binghamton, NY (US);

Adam Jung, Owego, NY (US);

John O. Moody, Vestal, NY (US);

Peter N. Stiles, Owego, NY (US);

Robert J. Szczerba, Endicott, NY (US);

Joel J. Tleon, Endicott, NY (US);

Inventors:

Dale E. DelNero, Endicott, NY (US);

Stephen J. DeMarco, Binghamton, NY (US);

Adam Jung, Owego, NY (US);

John O. Moody, Vestal, NY (US);

Peter N. Stiles, Owego, NY (US);

Robert J. Szczerba, Endicott, NY (US);

Joel J. Tleon, Endicott, NY (US);

Assignee:

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

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.


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