NAVY TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATION - Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Autonomous Behavior Development

Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) and Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUV) are comprised of many sensors that allow the vehicle to operate without a driver and under sparse supervision. These sensors include Cameras, Inertial Measurement Units (IMU), and Radar. Degraded or faulty sensors can prevent the USV/UUV from navigating around the environment, detecting hazards, and monitoring the health/status of on-ship components. In this proposal, Spatial Integrated Systems, Inc (SIS), through its real world and laboratory experience in robotics, autonomy, and Unmanned Vehicles (UxV) proposes to solve this problem by analyzing, predicting, and triangulating in-stride sensor readings. The goal is to provide the capability to detect a faulty or degraded sensor, based on newly developed sensor degradation algorithms/ combinations of algorithms, then to select the best reaction behavior to mitigate the risk caused by the degraded or faulty sensor. Combining this system for managing reactions with the sensors used by the autonomy systems will result in a reduction of manual interventions during UxV operations. SIS possesses sophisticated processes to rapidly design, develop, and test the software and mechanical systems needed to establish market ready products. SIS also has the expertise and infrastructure in place to distribute and support this product in-house