Collaborative Engagement with Unmanned Systems

Impact Technologies, LLC in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology and its industrial partners, Honeywell Laboratories and General Dynamics, is proposing to investigate and develop an integrated framework for collaboration among Autonomous Unmanned Systems (UMS), in which multiple UMS collaborate to engage one or more targets, autonomously. Building upon the extensive experience of this research team with UMS autonomous urban operations, we will develop, test and evaluate enabling technologies such as: intelligent agents, autonomous intelligent control architectures, mixed-initiative planning techniques, open control platforms, and hardware/software means to implement the algorithms in real-time. We will take advantage of data provided through the HURT and other DARPA programs to test and evaluate the proposed architecture. Impact will draft an aggressive productization and commercialization plan to transfer these technologies to the military and other sectors.