| Title: |
Cooperative Unmanned Vehicle Planning III |
| Category: |
Faculty |
| Intellectual Property: |
Student team assigns intellectual property control to company |
| Year: |
2009 |
| Semester: |
Fall |
| Sponsor Name: |
BAE Systems, Network Systems |
| Sponsoring advisors: |
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| Sponsor URL: |
http://www.baesystems.com/Businesses/EIS/Divisions/NetworkSystems/index.htm |
| Sponsor Information: |
Network Systems offers network-centric command, control, computing, and intelligence (C3I) solutions to meet emerging information needs with advanced concept development, capability-based integration, application development, and rapid operational prototyping. Network Systems’ broad technical expertise includes transmission systems integration, wideband networking radio systems, guidance and navigation, identification, and airborne ground-based software development. |
| ITAR Restriction: |
Yes |
| Scope of work: |
For 2009 – 2010, the goal of this senior project is for the interdisciplinary team to extend the development of Cooperative Unmanned Vehicle Operations Planning System (CUVOPS) which was formulated and developed by BAE Systems sponsored University of Arizona design teams over the past two years. Last year’s design team updated the software architecture and migrated the implementation to leverage Google Earth for the situational display and Google Maps to perform vehicle routing.
Based on the current state of the CUVOPS software, we expect enhancements to be primarily in two areas, updates based on known deficiencies and expanding CUVOPS capabilities based on a complete set of current and future requirements. An assessment of the current CUVOPS implementation has identified the following recommended enhancements: a new driver for interfacing between Google routes and vehicle display; a random event generator to support scenario initialization: and the addition of decision algorithms to support initial and dynamic vehicle tasking and scheduling.
Following the systems engineering process, determining what capabilities to add to CUVOPS will be based on assessing the current systems capabilities against the original development requirements. Specific analysis objectives are to ensure the software implementation meets original software design requirements, provides a robust foundation to support functional and display requirements and maintains the foundation for future enhancements and integration into larger. Enhancements can either be additional algorithmic in nature such as planning decision aids or more focused performance enhancements to the existing implementation such as increasing Google Maps autorouting performance.
Notionally, the team will consist of five members, one student performing the program manager’s role, two students to focus on systems engineering tasks and two students to focus on enhancing the CUVOPS software. |
| Project summary: |
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| Disciplines: |
Computer Engineering (2)
Systems Engineering (2)
Engineering Management (1) |
| Skills: |
Systems Engineering
Java programming experience
Object Oriented Design & Analysis
Vehicle Modeling and Simulation
Mathematical Modeling
Operations Research and/or Artificial Intelligence |
| Additional resources: |
BAE Systems Network Systems will provide a loaner PC Laptop that has last year’s CUVOPS implementation and development environment already loaded to be used as this year’s project starting point. BAE Systems can also provide assistance in; requirements analysis, functional and architecture assessments, problem definition and solution approaches, access to experienced Battle Management Systems engineers, as well as consultation for Java and software implementations. |
| Key Contact Name: |
Rex Helton |
| Key Contact Email: |
rex.helton@baesystems.com |
| Key Contact Phone: |
(858) 592-1674 |
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