Dismounted Small Unmanned Air Vehicle (SUAV) Associate

GUAVA will provide a PDA-based associate system for the dismounted soldier operating a small UAV. This system will augment the soldier in the field to realize a force multiplier benefit through assistance with effective UAV employment. As an associate system for the dismounted soldier, GUAVA will be cognizant of the operator's plans, goals, and situation. In particular, GUAVA will interpret a set of succinct commands such as "cover me" or "search along my route" and translate them into commands for the UAV. GUAVA will also be aware of what kind of tactical data is of the greatest interest to the soldier and will alert him appropriately when it is received. GUAVA will include a suite of agents based on ATL's Autonomy software. These agents will increase the autonomy level of the UAV/PDA GUAVA pair by providing system monitoring, analysis, diagnosis, capability assessment, and mission impact capability. GUAVA will use the Distributed Agent-Based Information Dissemination System (DAIDS) developed by ISX and ATL for AATD. GUAVA will use dissemination policies to determine the priority of tactical data, status messages, and control commands for exchange using the tactical data link.