Autonomous Vehicle Management System

"We propose to develop a Decision Aiding Tool (DAT) for operators ofmultiple UAVs. The tool will consist of the following: (i) Auser-friendly operator interface based on Multiple Unified SimulationEnvironment (MUSE); (ii) Finite-State Machine (FSM) based software fordetermining the status of subsystems and components in multiple UAVs;(iii) On-line trajectory generation software for trajectoryreconfiguration in response to the dynamically changing environments;and (iv) Fault-tolerant control software. The main idea behind theproposed approach is to migrate a number of tasks from the operator tothe intelligent DAT that will enable straightforward operation ofmultiple UAVs. In order to achieve these objectives, we propose tocarry out the following tasks: (i) Problem formulation; (ii)System-wide health monitoring and status determination; (iii)Autonomous trajectory reconfiguration in response to pop-up threats;(iv) Develop an integrated Operator Aiding (OpAID) simulation; (v)Demonstrate the new capabilities enabled by the proposed tool. Thefeasibility of the proposed approach will be evaluated using a VTUAVsimulation and an integrated simulation environment to be develpedthrough a joint effort of SSCI, Altair and Draper Lab. Potential applications of the proposed OpAID system, combiningeffective health monitoring, status determination, and fault tolerantop