Intelligent Systems Reference Library

A Compendium

By: Anthony Finn, Steve Scheding

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Hardcover | 28 February 2010

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It is widely anticipated that autonomous vehicles will have a transformational impact on military forces and will play a key role in many future force structures. As a result, many tasks have already been identified that unmanned systems could undertake more readily than humans. However, for this to occur, such systems will need to be agile, versatile, persistent, reliable, survivable and lethal. This will require many of the vehicles 'cognitive' or higher order functions to be more fully developed, whereas to date only the 'component' or physical functions have been successfully automated and deployed.

The book draws upon a broad range of others' work with a view to providing a product that is greater than the sum of its parts. The discussion is intentionally approached from the perspective of improving understanding rather than providing solutions or drawing firm conclusions. Consequently, researchers reading this book with the hope of uncovering some novel theory or approach to automating an unmanned vehicle will be as disappointed as the capability planner who anticipates a catalogue of technical risks and feasibility options against his favoured list of component technologies and potential applications. Nevertheless, it is hoped that both will at least learn something of the other's world and that progress will ensue as a result.

For the defence policy and decision maker, this is a "must-read" book which brings together an important technology summary with a considered analysis of future doctrinal, legal and ethical issues in unmanned and autonomous systems. For research engineers and developers of robotics, this book provides a unique perspective on the implications and consequences of our craft; connecting what we do to the deployment and use of the technology in current and future defence systems.
Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte

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Introduction	p. 1
Background	p. 5
Early UVS	p. 5
Modern UVS	p. 15
Looking Forward	p. 25
Autonomous UVS	p. 35
UVS Components	p. 35
UVS Architectures	p. 39
Human-UVS Interaction	p. 41
Human-Machine Interfaces	p. 49
Supervisory Workloads	p. 50
UVS Technology Issues	p. 55
Technology Challenges	p. 55
Contextual Decision-Making	p. 59
Planning in Dynamic Environments	p. 65
Verification and Validation	p. 68
Trust and Reliability in UVS	p. 69
Systems V&V for Autonomous UVS	p. 72
Simulation-Based V&V	p. 78
Health and Usage Monitoring	p. 80
Multi-vehicle Systems	p. 82
Multi-UAV ISTAR Example	p. 87
Multi-UVS Coordination	p. 91
Autonomous Multi-UVS Task Allocation	p. 94
Multi-UVS Navigation, Localisation and Mapping	p. 99
Capability and Systems Integration	p. 102
Force-Integration of UVS	p. 105
Capability Challenges	p. 105
Policy Considerations	p. 108
Training and Maintenance	p. 109
A Systems Approach to UVS Analysis	p. 112
Simulating UVS	p. 118
Interactive Simulation	p. 124
Measuring the Effectiveness of UVS	p. 128
Measuring the Force Effectiveness of UVS	p. 129
Measuring the Systems Performance of UVS	p. 138
Measuring UVS Performance	p. 145
Legal Issues for UVS	p. 155
Legal Issues for UVS Platforms	p. 156
Maritime Vehicles	p. 157
The Legal Status of UMVs	p. 157
Operations in Ocean Areas	p. 159
Navigation Environment	p. 159
Air Vehicles	p. 161
Ground Vehicles	p. 164
UVS and Tort Law	p. 165
UVS and the Law of Armed Conflict	p. 168
The Law of Armed Conflict	p. 171
UVS and Jus ad Bellum	p. 176
Autonomous Weapons	p. 178
Accountability and Liability	p. 180
Legal Personality for UVS	p. 184
UVS as Tools	p. 185
Human Intervention	p. 186
Technical Equivalence	p. 186
UVS as Agents	p. 187
Separate Legal Personality	p. 188
Impediments to Artificial Agency	p. 189
Technical Impediments to Agency	p. 191
Is the UVS the Real Decision-Maker?	p. 192
Ethical Control of UVS	p. 194
Could UVS Ethically Out-Perform Human	p. 196
Implementation Issues	p. 198
Architectural Considerations	p. 202
Concluding Remark	p. 209
References	p. 213
Acronymns	p. 229
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