Title :
Towards command and control networking of cooperative autonomous robotics for military applications (CARMA)
Author :
Jacoby, Grant A. ; Chang, David J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., United States Mil. Acad., West Point, NY
Abstract :
This research focuses on the development of a network of cooperative autonomous robotics for military applications (CARMA) that work together to search, track, carry, deploy and retrieve sensor and other small payloads for a variety of purposes. CARMA addresses how the distributed hierarchical structure employed by the military is ideally suited as an efficient and robust model for distributed cooperative robotics that reduces the operator-to-robot ratio, which until now has been mostly biologically-inspired.
Keywords :
command and control systems; robots; command and control networking; cooperative autonomous robotics; distributed cooperative robotics; distributed hierarchical structure; military applications; operator-to-robot ratio; Application software; Command and control systems; Humans; Intelligent robots; Military computing; Orbital robotics; Payloads; Robot sensing systems; Robustness; Service robots; Autonomous; Cooperative; Military; Robot;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2008. CCECE 2008. Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Niagara Falls, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1642-4
Electronic_ISBN :
0840-7789
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2008.4564649