Simulation based Approach for Unmanned System Command and Control

CESI has been working on an internal research and development program to address the issues of unmanned system’s collaboration using the simulation environment as a testbed. Traditional unmanned systems utilize swarm approaches, or intelligent agents with little concern for the human-systems and the ability to apply this to hundreds, and / or thousands of unmanned systems. The PI’s previous research under the DARPA Software for Distributed Robotics (DARPA SDR program) [1] showed promise for the combining of traditional robotics approach using baseline software such as the DARPA developed Player/Stage (playerstage.sourceforge.net) and military simulation software (The Army’s OneSAF Testbed Baseline) for the command and control environment. This paper is a lesson’s learned from the principle investigator’s research into the toolsets and the integration into existing simulation environments for the applicability to commanding UGV/UAVs and their training aspects.