Design and Evaluation of a UAS combining Cognitive Automation and Optimal Control

The University of the Bundeswehr Munich (UBM) and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) conduct cooperative research in the eld of single operator UAV guidance and ISR payload control. For the rst time cognitive automation and Optimal Control elements are combined to join high-level mission guidance with path planning and real-time path following. In this scope, the CoCAMPUS (Cooperative Cognitive Automation through Mathematically optimized Path-Following of UAVs) project is conducted to explore how to properly support a single operator in mission-guidance and ight-control to enhance the overall system performance, based on a simpli ed Air-Attack mission including static threats. The Cognitive System Architecture COSA is used to implement cognitive automation behavior on the basis of explicit knowledge models, dynamically deriving implicit cost-functions, serving the purpose of path optimization.

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