Abstract
AbstractThe employment of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) and robotic swarm in the future military operational environment is going to be one of the main challenges to modern warfare. Modelling and Simulation (M&S) technology allows to support Concept Development and Experimentation (CD&E) activities to develop new robotic autonomous capabilities, like robotic platforms, human-machine teaming interactions, Command and Control of robots, Artificial Intelligence for mission planning, decision support and self-training of robots and robot swarms. NATO M&S Centre of Excellence (M&S CoE) supports in this field NATO, national initiatives, and technical activities with particular engagements with the Allied Command for Transformation and the Science and Technology Organization. M&S COE has been developing the Research on Robotics for Concepts and Capability Development (R2CD2) project since 2016 to deliver in three annual phases an open, scalable, modular, standard-based prototypical architecture of M&S tools for experimentation on RAS and Robotic Swarms.The latest upgrade of this project is called R2CD2-EVO, which allows studying, analyzing and counter-measuring RAS systems and swarms, highlighting a behavioral script describing the process reacting to external stimulus from modelled sensors, according to mission tasks and dynamics attitude of the simulated system. One of the evolution of this platform could be the creation of a synthetic environment in order to validate and test attitude algorithms developed for a RAS system, in a military and complex scenario. This capability extends the wargaming concepts to RAS, acting as a training test arena, not only for standard training of personnel employing RAS systems during a military mission, but also as attitudinal training algorithms projected to capability development. Thanks to the boundary conditions, modelling it is possible to perform a multi-domain analysis, such as electromagnetic, cyber and machine decisional effects. As final results of these research and development activities, the R2CD2 EVO prototype is now proposed as the cornerstone for the development of a RAS Synthetic Environment Architecture to support Concept Development, Experimentation, Training and Exercise activities on Unmanned Autonomous multi domain Systems (UAxS) both for NATO and Nations partnering the M&S Centre of Excellence.KeywordsBehavioral codesRAS
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