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Activity title:
Autonomous Mobility Assessment for Military Ground Systems (CDT)
Activity Reference:
AVT-408
Panel:
AVT
Security Classification:
NATO UNCLASSIFIED
Status:
Active
Activity type:
RTG
Start date:
2024-01-01T00:00:00Z
Actual End date:
2026-12-31T00:00:00Z
Keywords:
Autonomy, Mobility, Modeling and Simulation
Background:
Autonomous ground systems are a key part of the future military strategy for many NATO Nations, and industry is racing to develop autonomous systems to be first to market. In this race to field these systems, there is still a lack of understanding of the capabilities and reliability of these systems. One key performance measure of autonomous ground systems is their mobility off-road. How fast can the system move and how reliably can it reach its destination under a wide range of conditions? How well can these systems maneuver with soldiers under a variety of operations? How are these measures defined? These are important topics that need to be addressed to fully field and operationalize these new technologies.
Modeling and Simulation (M&S) can be a key enabler in assessing off-road mobility performance of autonomous vehicles prior to conducting physical vehicle system tests. However, the state of the art is that such M&S capability does not yet exist. Traditional mobility assessment tools do not provide autonomy simulation capabilities, and autonomy tools lack a sound understanding of mobility. AVT-ET-194 and AVT-RTG-341 addressed this challenge by developing an integrated M&S framework of high-fidelity physics-based off-road autonomous mobility performance assessment and demonstrated the technology in a military relevant operational scenario named The Loyal Wingman, albeit only in a virtual setting. Given this backdrop, the M&S framework developed should be matured and validated through a physical system demonstration, hence this NATO CDT proposal.
Objectives:
This proposed CDT is to verify and validate the off-road autonomous mobility M&S framework against performance metrics, both developed in AVT-RTG-341, through a physical system demonstration of the Loyal Wingman operational scenario.
Topics:
These questions should be considered in conjunction with the Scientific Objectives and the Expected Achievements.
1. Can one build military relevant operational scenarios in M&S tools?
2. How much data is necessary and sufficient to create a digital twin of an off-road environment?
3. How sophisticated should a sensor model be to realistically represent its physical counterpart in an off-road environment?
4. How complex of a vehicle model is necessary and sufficient for mobility and dynamics M&S of autonomous vehicles?
5. Can physics such as terramechanics be ignored in autonomous off-road mobility performance assessment?
6. Can the M&S tools accurately assess the maturity and adequacy of the NATO Autonomy Stack for the AVT-RTG-341 Loyal Wingman scenario?
7. Does mobility interoperate with autonomy in M&S?
8. Does M&S output metrics for V&V and troubleshooting?
9. Can one assess vehicle system robustness using M&S based uncertainty quantification?
10. How challenged are computers and networks to run M&S in real time?
11. Does M&S live up to the expectation of predicting future test results?
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Created at 20/10/2023 14:00 by System Account
Last modified at 16/05/2024 20:00 by System Account
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