Unmanned vehicle mission planning, coordination and collaboration

摘要

A system and method are provided for implementing multi-mission tracking and re-tasking for a plurality of unmanned vehicles from a central location to provide mission deconfliction and mission modification in an operating environment, including an evolving and moving operating environment, to effectively employ the plurality of locally-operated unmanned vehicles. A mission controller, operating from a centralized location, takes a provided graphical situational awareness a step further in creating, modifying, or deleting/suspending missions for one or multiple unmanned vehicles to carry out, and then to transmit the proposed mission changes to the deployed unmanned vehicle operators for validation, acceptance, and execution. A non-voice communication capability is provided for a mission controller in a centralized location to generate and transmit new mission details in a graphical format to translate to each of a plurality of fielded unmanned vehicle operators, each controlling one or more unmanned vehicles for execution.

主权项

1. A system for communicating regarding unmanned vehicle operations, comprising:
a mission information device at a facility located remotely from unmanned vehicle operations, the mission information device being configured to receive mission planning and tracking information regarding unmanned vehicle operations directly from one or more local communication and control consoles, each controlling operations of one or more unmanned vehicles; a situational awareness display at the facility configured to graphically depict mission planning and tracking information for the one or more unmanned vehicles; an operating input device configured to receive user inputs of a graphical depiction on the situational awareness display of an unmanned vehicle mission profile for one or more unmanned vehicles to provide separation from operations of other vehicles in a vicinity of each of the one or more unmanned vehicles, the operating input device being configured as a user interactive input device by which a user at the facility draws the graphical depiction of the unmanned vehicle mission profile on the situational awareness display; and a mission command device that is programmed to
interpret the input graphical depiction of the unmanned vehicle mission profile,generate a data transmission commanding at least one of a new or modified mission for at least one of the one or more unmanned vehicles based on the input graphical depiction, andtransmit the data transmission based on the input graphical depiction to at least one of the one or more local communication and control consoles for display as a presented graphical depiction, the graphical depiction of the unmanned vehicle mission profile being a series of points defining a closed area within which a particular unmanned vehicle is commanded to operate exclusively separated from the other vehicles.