Integrated Fusion and Routing System (IFRS) for UAV ISR

As the quantity of available ISR sensor platforms increases, efficient cooperative routing of ISR assets for successful data collection becomes more difficult to coordinate. Additionally, the volume of information collected precludes comprehensive and timely human analysis. Automated routing algorithms and multi-source data fusion technologies are necessary to achieve decision superiority by exploiting the full capabilities of ISR assets. To explore possibilities for exploitation of knowledge gained by sensor fusion to the benefit of cooperative ISR platform routing algorithms, we propose to design and prototype an Integrated Fusion and Routing System (IFRS) for UAV ISR platforms. The proposed IFRS effort will examine how multi-source data fusion metrics can be used within a coevolutionary algorithm to dynamically improve cooperative ISR platform routing.