STTR Phase I: Low-cost, onboard navigational autonomy and awareness for next generation UMVs

STTR 第一阶段：低成本、机载导航自主性和下一代 UMV 意识

• 批准号: 1722355
• 负责人: Anthony Mulligan
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Hydronalix
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1722355&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Low; cost; onboard

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project will be to reduce the necessary supervision and oversight required to operate multiple unmanned platforms in the execution of real-world, specific, task-based activities supporting search and rescue, routine mapping and intelligence gathering missions. Shifting control from teleoperation to autonomous navigation could enable first responders such as lifeguards, to quadruple their capacity to assist in mass, maritime disaster, rescue scenarios for example. The current practice of a single lifeguard handling 3 victims in a routine riptide incident will be improved by a factor of four, through the use of this technology, allowing lifeguards to better manage mass-scale, maritime disasters that may involve a hundred victims. Human lifeguards could focus on those people requiring immediate personal assistance (unconscious, hypothermia or children for instance), while unmanned maritime platforms could be tasked with responding to clusters of survivors better capable of self-rescue. Lifeguard assistant robots can also help with the over 400,000 lower profile events in the US each year. A robot could not only save lives but reduce risk to the lifeguard who typically has to swim or jet-ski out to provide flotation and rescue lines to victims in dangerous conditions.This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will develop increased intelligence and self-awareness for autonomous platforms that will result in an increase in operator ?trust? and allow potential operators who might consider autonomous platforms as ?unreliable? due to potential lost communication links, to have greater confidence in adopting these platforms. The technology will transition from far field navigation control (such as waypoint based navigation) to a near field control allowing precision delivery of the platform to the desired location in a dynamic environment. This capability would allow a maritime platform to autonomously drive to a designated cluster of survivors, slow down and behave according to known social proxemics so as not to further stress the victims. On board, vehicle health monitoring would allow critical system parameters to be reported and broadcast allowing ad-hoc networking with other platforms in the region. The overall objective would be to optimize the use of resources in any region and to quickly allow multiple lifeguard teams converging on a mass marine casualty event to interact but without having to pre-register or have a priori knowledge of each other?s systems.

该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力将是减少在执行支持搜索和救援、例行测绘和情报收集任务的真实世界、特定、基于任务的活动中操作多个无人平台所需的必要监督和监督。 将控制从远程操作转移到自主导航可以使救生员等第一响应者的能力翻两番，以协助大规模的海上灾难，例如救援场景。通过使用这项技术，目前一名救生员在常规激流事件中处理3名受害者的做法将提高四倍，使救生员能够更好地管理可能涉及100名受害者的大规模海上灾难。人类救生员可以专注于那些需要立即个人援助的人（例如无意识，体温过低或儿童），而无人海上平台的任务可以是应对能够更好地自救的幸存者群体。 救生员助理机器人还可以帮助美国每年超过40万个低调的活动。 机器人不仅可以拯救生命，还可以降低救生员的风险，因为救生员通常需要游泳或水上摩托车，在危险的情况下为受害者提供漂浮和救援线。这个小企业技术转让（STTR）第一阶段项目将为自主平台开发更高的智能和自我意识，这将导致操作员的增加。信任？并允许潜在的运营商谁可能会考虑自主平台？不可靠？由于潜在的通信链路丢失，对采用这些平台有更大的信心。 该技术将从远场导航控制（如基于航路点的导航）过渡到近场控制，允许在动态环境中将平台精确交付到所需位置。 这种能力将使海上平台能够自动驾驶到指定的幸存者集群，减速并根据已知的社会化学行为，以免进一步给受害者带来压力。 在车上，车辆健康监测将允许报告和广播关键系统参数，从而允许与该区域的其他平台进行特别联网。 总体目标将是优化任何区域的资源利用，并迅速允许多个救生队在大规模海上伤亡事件中进行互动，但不必预先登记或事先了解对方。s系统。