Innovations in Autonomous Systems
Autonomous systems can operate with limited, or even without, human control. The military prizes these systems for their ability to perform tasks too dull, dangerous, or dirty for humans. MITRE Corporation offers a look inside the government's autonomous systems research programs.
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00:00:06 in their report outlining their Science and Technology goals the Secretary of Defense identified autonomous systems as one of their top investment priorities autonomous systems are systems that can operate with limited or even without human control sensing their environment processing information making decisions and taking action the military can considers autonomous
00:00:31 systems vital to their efforts because these systems can perform tasks that are too dull dangerous or dirty for humans to tackle miter has long been a trusted partner in the government's autonomous systems research program mitter's expertise in systems engineering command and control sensors data management and artificial intelligence makes us
00:00:56 uniquely suited to shape the direction of this new field miter breakthroughs in perception and reasoning technology have led to the design of such cuttingedge autonomous systems as the meteor and the centur in 2005 miter designed the meteor a Ford Explorer with the ability to drive itself as an entrant into the defense Advanced research projects
00:01:21 agency's Grand Challenge the meteor made the finals of that competition cementing mitter's reputation as an autonomous systems pioneer ear to expand upon the meteor's capabilities miter has experimented with pairing the vehicle with smaller robots one of the meteor's pint-sized partners is the packbot the packbot rides in the back of the meteor once an objective
00:01:48 such as a roadside bomb or a sniper Nest is reached the nimbler packbot disembarks from the meteor and goes to work to further investigate the ability of autonomous systems to collaborate miter designed the centors using Advanced sensors to survey the environment and identify navigable routes these driverless off-road vehicles follow behind military convoys
00:02:14 or emergency response Vehicles so that they are on hand to assist in tasks too dangerous for their human teammates so that Battlefield commanders can take best advantage of these autonomous system capabilities miter has helped us designed the soft ocu command and control system with its multi-touch portable display systems soft ocu allows commanders to Monitor and command
00:02:41 multiple robot systems it's not only on the front lines of a battlefield or in the middle of a raging forest fire where humans may find themselves outmatched in cyberspace where computer viruses relentlessly probe for systems to infect or Trojan programs tirelessly sniff about about for poorly secured Secrets human operators do not have the time attention
00:03:05 or speed to battle every cyber threat miter is exploring how autonomous systems could be designed to take the lead in cyber defense having established itself as a center of autonomous Systems Innovation miter plans to continue pushing the boundaries of its research while designing practical applications of autonomous systems to meet the challenge
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