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Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (CUAS) Capability for Battalion-and-Below Operations Abbreviated Version of a Restricted Report (2018) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix D Decomposition of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Pages 33-36

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... -- Navigation involves having situational awareness of the movement space; knowledge of the current location, the desired end-state locations, and directions of movement; the ability to map and find a way through immediate surroundings; and the ability to detect nearby hazards to mobility. -- Individual behavior and skills is the combination of artificial intelligence with inputs from perception, planning, and navigation to support cooperative behavior and develop 1 Some of the ideas for subareas were generated by the Committee on Army Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology (NRC, 2002)
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... and the ability to understand "commander's intent." -- Learning and adaptation is the ability of a sUAS to enhance or modify its artificial intelligence and its behaviors based on an evolving friendly situation and/or capabilities as well as changing enemy tactics and/or capabilities-for example, the ability of a sUAS to learn new military roles and rules of engagement when transitioning from conventional to irregular warfare. • Supporting functions include the following: -- Mobility is the ability of a sUAS to traverse through air, on land (natural and artificial terrain)
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... , and range safety for instrumenting threat sUASs and assessing counter-sUAS systems. Including instrumentation to provide time-space position information and other test data is a significant problem on sUASs that have little or no space, weight, or power available for the instrumentation.
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Key Terms

  • artificial intelligence
  • autonomous behavior
  • unmanned ground
  • suas capabilities
  • army unmanned

  • situational awareness
  • friendly situation
  • supporting functions
  • suas operations
  • collaborative suas

  • future suas
  • describe suas
  • lethal mission
  • suas technology
  • mission planning

  • suas technologies
  • suas takes
  • identify suas
  • assigned mission
  • mission order

  • standard operating
  • live prototype
  • user assessments
  • power sources
  • planning information

  • skills includes
  • military roles
  • enemy tactics
  • additional considerations
  • military planning


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