Remote Intelligence Research Articles

Autonomous acoustic sensing on mobile ground and aerial platforms

Acoustic sensor systems on the ground and/or in the air can be used effectively for autonomous and remote intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) applications. Acoustic sensors can be used as primary sensors and/or secondary sensors to cue other higher-resolution sensors for detection, tracking and classification of continuous and transient battlefield acoustic events such as ground vehicles, airborne aircraft, personnel, indirect fire, and direct fire. Current collaborative research activities at ARL in acoustic sensing from mobile ground platforms such as HMMWVs and small robotic vehicles [P. Martin and S. Young, Proc. of SPIE Defense & Security Symposium, 2004] and from aerial platforms such as UAVs and balloons [Reiff, Pham et al, Proc. of the 24th Army Science Conference, 2004] demonstrate practical performance enhancements over fixed ground-based platforms for a number of ISR applications. For both mobile ground and aerial platforms, self-generated noise (flow noise and platform noise) is problematic but they can be suppressed with specialized windscreens, sensor placement, and noise cancellation technology. Typical acoustic detection and processing results for mobile platforms are compared and contrasted against fixed ground-based platforms.

In‐water field analytical technology: Underwater mass spectrometry, mobile robots, and remote intelligence for wide and local area chemical profiling

AbstractAn automated field analysis strategy for aqueous environments is proposed with the use of a mobile robot equipped with an underwater mass spectrometer aided by linked remote numerical models or natural intelligence. Intelligent search strategies were made possible through the use of numerical models, and natural intelligence was in the form of a man in the loop. The field‐analysis strategy is useful for local‐ and wide‐area in situ chemical surveying for environmental and economical tasks. The operation of chemoreceptive field underwater robots is demonstrated during two field trials, one using numerical models to aid in characterization of chemical dispersion, and the other discriminating a chemical gradient in the field. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Field Analyt Chem Technol 5: 121–130, 2001