Mission effectiveness quantification and assessment of Micro Autonomous Systems and Technologies

Mian, Zohaib; Mavris, Dimitri N.

doi:10.1109/sieds.2013.6549514

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“…However, previous work 5 suggests that Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are the most promising platform for MAST ensembles. This paper will therefore focus on system-level design -specifically the system-level design of quadrotors, because they are among the most versatile and widely researched MAV configurations 6 . It will lay out a quantitative methodology for evaluating systems level design feasibility and apply the methodology to quadrotor design, thereby narrowing the SoS-level design space and reducing the scope of future design efforts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Military products tend to be heavier and consume more power, but they receive an additional band of satellite signals which is encrypted and only available to military equipment with a proper decryption key. 10 This additional signal allows them to achieve significantly better spatial resolution while the encryption makes it more difficult for an enemy to disrupt GPS communication. 10 When their relevant characteristics were compared on a systems-level basis, units within these categories were virtually indistinguishable from each other.…”

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A Multi-Disciplinary Integrated Design Environment for Requirements Development and Performance Evaluation of Autonomous Systems

Roe

Ford

Cinar

et al. 2014

14th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference

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This paper lays out a methodology for evaluating system-level requirements feasibility during System-of-Systems (SoS) conceptual design, especially in the absence of historical data, and simultaneously documents the methodology's application to the design of small aerial vehicles. Developed as part of a larger effort to set requirements for autonomous robots operating to support combat troops in urban environments or otherwise complex terrain, the methodology manifests itself in a parametric, interactive, and virtual design environment. The proposed approach relies on a comprehensive set of parametric models to estimate subsystem performance characteristics from user-supplied subsystem design parameters. These models are then integrated such that, through optimization and the use of response surface methodology, the system-level performance characteristics can be rapidly computed. This allows the environment's user to visualize design tradeoffs across the entire design space, quantify the sensitivity of system-level performance measures to subsystem design parameters, and evaluate the feasibility of system-level requirements. It will be shown that, in the current application, this methodology allows the designer to identify the feasible portion of the system-level design space and thereby dramatically narrow the scope of future SoS design efforts. IMADE (Integrated MAST Analysis and Design Environment) is a GUIbased implementation of the methodology as it was applied to the design of small aerial vehicles. Example analyses from IMADE demonstrate that a quadrotor designed for a hypothetical 10-minute reconnaissance mission will need to be approximately a third of a meter wide but could shrink to a quarter of a meter wide if only the lidar were excluded. These analyses also show that the quadrotor is capable of transmitting video for hours if perched in position and will be visible from hundreds of meters away.

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A Multi-Disciplinary Integrated Design Environment for Requirements Development and Performance Evaluation of Autonomous Systems

Roe

Ford

Cinar

et al. 2014

14th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference

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“…This allows for a soldier to access an improved space of solutions, but there are some tools required to allow for forward deployed soldiers to perform rapid engineering and manufacturing of specialized sUAS systems. Previous work includes a multidisciplinary framework built on simulataneous application of decomposition and re-composition, implemented in order to establish a structured and traceable method to evaluate mission effectiveness of microsystems [5]. This led to the development of the Interactive Reconfigurable Matrix of Alternatives, which assists with comprehending the large concept solution space.…”

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A Framework for Integrated Analysis, Design, and Rapid Prototyping of Small Unmanned Airplanes

Locascio

Ramee

Schaus

et al. 2016

16th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference

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A vital requirement of the modern combat environment is to gain and maintain situational awareness to facilitate effective squad-level decision making. This paper presents a part of the research undertaken by Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in collaboration with the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in developing design capabilities for small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS). As part of this effort the team developed a toolset capable of creating mission-specific fixed wing aircraft assets that can be rapidly tailored and manufactured at a forward operating base. The toolset includes a physics-based analysis model to generate feasible aircraft designs from a family of designs, a decision making tool to select the optimal design for a mission, and a parametric CAD model. The CAD model accepts sizing parameters from the design algorithm and uses them to scale baseline part files, which can then be used to rapidly manufacture vehicle parts. Several sets of mission requirements were chosen, leading to unique fixed wing aircraft designs which were manufactured and flown. The process described herein can be used to develop and fabricate small unmanned airplane designs to fulfill rapidly changing squad-level mission-specific operational needs, but can also be applied to other vehicle architectures.

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Fundamental Models for Missions of Engineered Systems

Zhu¹

2019

2019 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon)

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Mission effectiveness quantification and assessment of Micro Autonomous Systems and Technologies

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

A Multi-Disciplinary Integrated Design Environment for Requirements Development and Performance Evaluation of Autonomous Systems

A Multi-Disciplinary Integrated Design Environment for Requirements Development and Performance Evaluation of Autonomous Systems

A Framework for Integrated Analysis, Design, and Rapid Prototyping of Small Unmanned Airplanes

Fundamental Models for Missions of Engineered Systems

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