A distributed stand-in EW hunter-killer system

Author

Brown, Kim ; Drake, Sam ; Mason, Keith ; Piotrowski, Andrew ; Swierkowski, Leszek

Author_Institution

Defence Sci. & Techmology Organ., Edinburgh

fYear

2007

fDate

9-12 July 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

DSTO Australia concluded a two year research program in March 2006 that demonstrated distributed, autonomous, self-organising stand-in sensor and effector systems. This paper describes research activities from this program including the development of miniaturised sensor and effector payloads, the development of novel algorithms for the fusion of data from distributed sensor payloads and the development of novel aircraft control algorithms to enable near optimal geo-location of pop-up emitters. The paper also describes field trials in which information products from these systems were injected into command support systems for integration and visualisation with other data to support situational awareness. A follow-on program has been approved and is also overviewed in this paper.

Keywords

aircraft control; command and control systems; control engineering computing; data visualisation; distributed sensors; military systems; aircraft control; command support system; data fusion; data integration; data visualisation; distributed sensor payloads; distributed stand-in EW hunter-killer system; effector payloads; effector system; electronic warfare; geo-location; intelligent agent; miniaturised sensor; pop-up emitter; situational awareness; stand-in sensor; Aerospace control; Australia; Cameras; Helicopters; Payloads; Radar detection; Radar tracking; Sensor fusion; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; distributed fusion; electronic warfare; intelligent agents; sensor networks; situational awareness; targeting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Fusion, 2007 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Quebec, Que.

Print_ISBN

978-0-662-45804-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-662-45804-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIF.2007.4407985

Filename

4407985