JEFX 10 demonstration of Cooperative Hunter Killer UAS and upstream data fusion
2011
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory deployed and demonstrated a prototype Cooperative Hunter
Killer (CHK) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) capability and a prototype Upstream Data Fusion (UDF) capability as
participants in the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2010 in April 2010. The CHK capability was deployed at the
Nevada Test and Training Range to prosecute a convoy protection operational thread. It used mission-level autonomy
(MLA) software applied to a networked swarm of three Raven hunter UAS and a Procerus Miracle surrogate killer UAS,
all equipped with full motion video (FMV). The MLA software provides the capability for the hunter-killer swarm to
autonomously search an area or road network, divide the search area, deconflict flight paths, and maintain line of sight
communications with mobile ground stations. It also provides an interface for an operator to designate a threat and
initiate automatic engagement of the target by the killer UAS. The UDF prototype was deployed at the Maritime
Operations Center at Commander Second Fleet, Naval Station Norfolk to provide intelligence analysts and the ISR
commander with a common fused track picture from the available FMV sources. It consisted of a video exploitation
component that automatically detected moving objects, a multiple hypothesis tracker that fused all of the detection data
to produce a common track picture, and a display and user interface component that visualized the common track picture
along with appropriate geospatial information such as maps and terrain as well as target coordinates and the source
video.
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