Technology Requirement to Implement Improved Situation Awareness: Machine Perception

1. ABSTRACT Situation awareness is the ability of an unmanned vehicle intelligent control system to model the world. A world model is an intelligent system’s current internal estimate of the state of the world, plus its prior knowledge of the history of the world, plus knowledge about the rules of physics and mathematics, plus rules of behavior, task skills, and basic values. World modeling is the ability of the intelligent system to maintain and use a world model to predict and filter sensory experience, to understand the past, and to simulate the future. Perception is the functional transformation of data from sensors into situational awareness.