CENTRE FOR MARITIME RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION

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1 CENTRE FOR MARITIME RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION Gabriel Grenon, Dr.Alain Maguer Per Arne Sletner Head, Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles Section Dronitaly Slide 1

2 Mission CMRE organises and conducts scientific research and technology development, and delivers innovative and field-tested S&T solutions to address the defence and security needs of the Alliance in the maritime domain. Slide 2

field-tested S&T solutions to address the defence and

3 Highly-skilled, international, interdisciplinary professionals Visiting Scientists Collaborative Research Program Over 50 years preparing instrumentation and performing controlled measurements at sea Slide 3

Research Program Over 50 years preparing

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5 Commercial and Science environment Slide 5

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7 Defense environment Slide 7

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Coordinated multi-domain efforts - Minimize negative impact on individual system

9 AUVs with their specific capabilities (size, range, speed, functionalities, payloads) Some capability enhancements delegated to supporting systems Universal CS System of Systems - Coordinated multi-domain efforts - Minimize negative impact on individual system capabilities - Maximize benefits of supporting systems - Provide means for future enhancements Slide 9

10 System of Systems Slide 10

11 Subsea Service Node Slide 11

12 Surface Service Node Slide 12

13 Interoperability INTER- OPERABILITY OPEN ARCHITECTURE PERSISTENCE DECISION MAKING SAFETY CO$T Slide 13

M1 M2 M3 Mn Stovepipe Architecture AUV PLD L&R C2 AUV PLD L&R C2 AUV PLD L&R C2 AUV PLD L&R C2 For each Mission, a dedicated set of - 1 AUV and its Payload - 1 L&R - 1 C2-1 Crew INTER- OPERABILITY

14 M1 M2 M3 Mn Stovepipe Architecture AUV PLD L&R C2 AUV PLD L&R C2 AUV PLD L&R C2 AUV PLD L&R C2 For each Mission, a dedicated set of - 1 AUV and its Payload - 1 L&R - 1 C2-1 Crew INTER- OPERABILITY CREW CREW CREW CREW OPEN ARCHITECTURE AUV AUV AUV AUV PLD PLD PLD PLD L&R L&R L&R L&R C2 C2 C2 C2 Interoperable Pool Architecture For a given Mission, a flexible combination of - { AUVs } * { PLDs } - { L&Rs } - { C2s } - { Crews } - { Miscellaneous Supports } PERSISTENCE DECISION MAKING SAFETY CREW CREW CREW CREW SUP SUP SUP SUP CO$T Slide 14

L&R L&R L&R C2 C2 C2 C2 Interoperable Pool Architecture For a given Mission, a flexible combination of - { AUVs } * { PLDs } - { L&Rs }

INTER- OPERABILITY OPEN ARCHITECTURE PERSISTENCE - Legacy Vehicles: Frontseat/Backseat middleware provides a means to interface all legacy onboard control systems with a common high-level and user

15 INTER- OPERABILITY OPEN ARCHITECTURE PERSISTENCE - Legacy Vehicles: Frontseat/Backseat middleware provides a means to interface all legacy onboard control systems with a common high-level and user interface - New Vehicles: Born interoperable DECISION MAKING - Use and further development of interface and communications standards (STANAG 4586, NATO STO IST) - Use de-facto standard software suites (MOOS, ROS) Common language with all operators/c 2 (MDCS) Means to collaborate as a Federation Test/Validate through simulation, SIL, HIL Code re-use SAFETY CO$T - Extend to UW communications (JANUS) - Extend to hardware interoperability? Slide 15

communications standards (STANAG 4586, NATO STO IST) - Use de-facto standard software suites (MOOS, ROS) Common language with all operators/c 2 (MDCS) Means to

16 Open Architecture INTER- OPERABILITY OPEN ARCHITECTURE PERSISTENCE DECISION MAKING SAFETY CO$T Slide 16

17 Persistence INTER- OPERABILITY Ep Pf() n OPEN ARCHITECTURE PERSISTENCE DECISION MAKING SAFETY CO$T Slide 17

18 INTER- OPERABILITY OPEN ARCHITECTURE PERSISTENCE DECISION MAKING SAFETY CO$T Slide 18

19 INTER- OPERABILITY OPEN ARCHITECTURE PERSISTENCE DECISION MAKING SAFETY CO$T Slide 19

1- Keep personnel out of harm s way 2- Safe (launch and) recovery of deployed assets remote-piloted robotic operations (1) minimize personnel involvement in L&R (1) minimize

20 1- Keep personnel out of harm s way 2- Safe (launch and) recovery of deployed assets remote-piloted robotic operations (1) minimize personnel involvement in L&R (1) minimize impact of sea conditions (1-2) DS = long term parking Postpone recovery to next safe weather window INTER- OPERABILITY OPEN ARCHITECTURE PERSISTENCE DECISION MAKING SAFETY CO$T Slide 20

impact of sea conditions (1-2) DS = long term parking Postpone recovery to next safe

Tom Swean, NATO SCI ET-012 Affordable Robotics Status of Fielded UxS Systems United States Costs driven by unique requirements Fielded unmanned systems are almost without exception developed for

21 Tom Swean, NATO SCI ET-012 Affordable Robotics Status of Fielded UxS Systems United States Costs driven by unique requirements Fielded unmanned systems are almost without exception developed for Servicespecific needs driven by rapid fielding timelines in support of immediate operational requirements (specific unit needs rather than Big-Service needs). Industry has become comfortable with producing a completely new unmanned platform/system when an improvement or new capability is needed. Very little is backward compatible. Opportunities for realizing cost savings Limited to NO interoperability with other unmanned (or manned) systems in all domains (ground, air, maritime) Payloads, sensors, software & computing technology are anticipated to evolve much faster than base platforms requiring modularity within a system. Open architectures (OA), nonproprietary interfaces, government owned data rights, and standard interoperability profiles (IOP) are required for broader, more affordable, net-centric military applications. INTER- OPERABILITY OPEN ARCHITECTURE PERSISTENCE DECISION MAKING SAFETY SoS as a framework to implement better cost practices CO$T Slide 21

22 Interoperability From - Stovepipes To - Collaborative / interchangeable pool of service providers Open Architecture - Modularity - Configurability - Scalability Persistence - Endurance (energy) - System robustness (HW & SW) Affordability - Procurement - Operations & maintenance - TLMP Safety - L&R capability - Remote operations Decision-Making - Onboard intelligence - Limited & intermittent communications Slide 22

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24 Research and experimentation in support of maritime operational requirements of NATO & Nations Basic scientific research and the technological application of acquired knowledge to military problems Sea trials to discover and test hypotheses & technologies in difficult environments Unbiased applied scientific research in the maritime domain: The development of capabilities for NATO maritime forces Assistance to NATO member state S&T and R&D programmes Advice and support to NATO Forces Technologies for autonomous ISR and associated concepts of operations (LF, active, and synthetic aperture sonar; risk mitigation) Knowledge of ocean processes for military application (acoustic propagation models, tactical prediction and decision making) What is CMRE? Experimentation at sea, tests & trials (autonomous vehicles) Networking (academia, research institutes, defence labs and naval forces) Slide 24

25 Scientific Programme Maritime Information, Surveillance, Recon. (MISR) Autonomous Naval Mine Countermeasures Cooperative Anti-Submarine Warfare Environmental Knowledge and Op Effectiveness Robotic Characterisation Tactical Prediction Decision Making Maritime Security Maritime Situational Awareness Infrastructure Protection Slide 25

26 Intelligent, mission-adaptable, autonomous undersea surveillance and intervention demonstrated at sea LIVEXES with ESP and ITA SAS for autonomous target detection Comparative performance assessment AUV workshop MANEX End-to-end system-of-systems for autonomous MCM Highlight ANMCM CoE NMW, NOR, NLD, CAN, GBR, DEU On-board MCM mission planning and evaluation workshop. Slide 26

Highlight EKOE Denied Area Characterization via multifaceted oceanographic observation network demonstrated at sea MED-REP13 sea-trial Covert

retasking Without data from the network Robots Operating Inside the Denied Area Gliders NRV Alliance Monitoring the Boundary Buoy With data

27 Highlight EKOE Denied Area Characterization via multifaceted oceanographic observation network demonstrated at sea MED-REP13 sea-trial Covert ocean observing networks Portable, heterogeneous nodes including robots and buoys Improved tactical prediction through almost real-time retasking Without data from the network Robots Operating Inside the Denied Area Gliders NRV Alliance Monitoring the Boundary Buoy With data from the network Ashore at CMRE: Data Fusion, Forecast Models, C2 of Robots Tactical Prediction of Temperature Across the Denied Area (yellow line) Slide 27

28 Highlight CASW Detection, classification and tracking of submarines by a network of AUVs demonstrated at sea Network of AUVs detect 2 SSKs during intensive ASW/near-shore ISR Secure satellite link to CMRE reachback cell Shared waterspace with SSK Slide 28

29 Innovation & Technology Demands: & Beyond Machine learning, perception, complex adaptive behaviors Underwater detection, classification, localization, tracking Characterizing, measuring, exploiting underwater environments Uncertainty and variability in performance prediction Complex heterogeneous networks performance prediction Multistatics in complex, heterogeneous, ad-hoc networks Autonomous sensor network scalability and optimization Communications, security, trust and reputation Metrics for quantifying operational effectiveness and cost Distributed decision (human/machine) Fielding and persistence of autonomous machines at sea Counter autonomous vehicle threat Modeling and Simulation Slide 29

30 Capabilities Modeling and simulation Sensors and signal processing Seagoing capability Underwater acoustics Portable sensors Sonars and transducers Ocean engineering Autonomous vehicles Autonomy - maritime domain Calibration Ocean prediction Communications engineering Operations research Remote sensing at sea Oceanographic systems Hydrographic systems Slide 30

Information Fusion (Hard and Soft) For Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaisance (ISR) Joint Symposium IST-106 and SET-189

CALL FOR PAPERS for the IST/SET-126 Symposium on Information Fusion (Hard and Soft) For Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaisance (ISR) Joint Symposium IST-106 and SET-189 to be held in Norfolk Virginia,