Terrain Analysis for Human-Robot Interaction (TAH-RI): Enabling Terrain Understanding to Improve Tactical Behavior

摘要

Terrain has a big impact on how battlefield situations unfold primarily because of its effects on observability, mobility, and restriction of fields of fire. As armed forces of the information age come within each other's sensor coverage, information about them is rapidly conveyed to their opponents. Terrain imposes constraints and opens opportunities for the creative use of Battlefield Operating Systems (BOS) and the capabilities and limitations of available troops, vehicles, systems, and materiel. Thus, understanding terrain, and its tactical import is essential for a force to succeed in its missions. Future Force Warrior (FFW) and Future Combat Systems (FCS) initiatives are developing advanced functional capabilities to aid Soldiers in operations to control and hold ground. Adding robotic vehicles, sensors, and weapons creates a planning and coordination challenge for commanders, and highlights the need for autonomous robotic systems that effectively 'understand' the tactical import of terrain and integrate that understanding into their situation awareness and behavior-generation processes. TAH-RI is reusable component software providing means of increasing readiness of Soldiers (e.g., in training and performance support systems) to integrate terrain understanding into battlefield decision-making processes, and means of enabling more autonomy in robots through terrain understanding for tactical behavior generation.