JOINT ROBOTICS PROGRAM

OVERVIEW
presented to

Conference on Intelligent Vehicle

Technology Transfer
November 2, 2005
 OUTLINE

• Background

• Sample of JRP Programs

• Technology Transfer

• Couple of JRP Initiatives

 JRP HISTORY

Congressional Direction
Department of Defense Appropriations Bill, 1990

“.....The Committee reluctantly concludes that the only way to produce

a more focused and cost-
cost-effective robotics program is to delete funds
for all the separate projects and consolidate them under OSD policy
and program direction .....

.....The Committee also is concerned that many of the robotics programs

are proceeding without definite requirements from those organizations
which would employ such capabilities in combat.....

.....The Committee expects that OSD will decide both the funding and
technology priorities for these efforts....”
 OVERSIGHT STRUCTURE
Mr. Tony Melita
Defense Systems
Ground Robotics Joint Architecture for
Land Warfare &
Technology Base Unmanned Systems
Munitions
Mr. Cliff Hudson

Robotic Systems Product Manager Program Manager Air Force Research

Joint Project Force Protection SEA – Explosive Laboratory
Office Systems Ordnance Disposal

Col Terry Griffin LTC Brian Shoop Mr. Chris Debolt Mr. Al Nease

Army Aviation & Army Tank/Auto- Space and Naval Air Combat Command
Missile Motive, Armaments Warfare Systems Civil Engineer
RDEC RDEC Center – San Diego Readiness Div

Mr. Robert Wade Dr. Grant Gerhart Mr. Bart Everett Mr. Jim Russell

Robotics Branch Product Manager

Army Research Robotic & Unmanned
Laboratory Sensors

Mr. Chuck Shoemaker LTC Reed Young

Not funded by JRP
 JRP FUNDING

(dollars in millions)
6.3 6.4

40

35

30

25

20

15

10
5
0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Fiscal Year
 CURRENT UNMANNED
GROUND SYSTEM MISSIONS
• Explosive Ordnance Disposal
- Combating Terrorism
- UXO/IED Defeat
• Remediation
• Combat Engineering
- Mine Clearing
- Obstacle Breaching
- Emplacing Charges
- Wall Breaching
• Reconnaissance
- Persistent EO/IR Surveillance
- CBRN
- BDA
• Direct Fire Weapons
• Obscuration
• Physical Security
• Force Protection
 JRP SYSTEMS

Future Combat Gladiator

Systems (FCS)

Remote Ordnance Neutralization All--purpose Remote Transport

All
System (RONS) System (ARTS)
 JRP SYSTEMS

Omni--Directional Inspection
Omni
System (ODIS) Mobile Detection Assessment
Response Sys - Expeditionary (MDARS-
(MDARS-E)

Man-Transportable
Man-
Robotic System (MTRS)
COUGAR
 ROBOTIC EVOLUTION

1990 2005 2020

Tele-operation Autonomy
100% 100%

Adaptive/
Pure
Teleoperation Situational Tactical
Feature Awareness Behaviors
Human Intervention

Identification

Robot Autonomy
Road Mission
Following Planning

/Intelligence
Route
Obstacle Planning
Detection Target
Obstacle Recognition
Avoidance

Autonomous
Mobility

0% 0%

Time
 DIFFERENT GOALS

Technology for Passenger Safety

Technology for Autonomous Military Missions

 BUT WHEN YOU DRILL DOWN,

Differing goals can mean common technology

needs and solutions
Auto Industry Military Robotics

Collision Avoidance Obstacle Avoidance

Lane Departure Road Following

Standardization Software Architecture

Health Maintenance Diagnostics

Vehicle--to
Vehicle to--Vehicle Comms Interoperability

Fleet Management Collaborative Operations

Vision Aids Night Operations

 JAUS

The Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems addresses

interoperability with an emphasis on the logical communications
between heterogeneous computing systems used for
Unmanned Systems command and control. JAUS will be
An Aerospace Standard of the Society of Automotive Engineers
(SAE)

JAUS = { Messages }

Message = Control + Addressing + Data

WWW.JAUSWG.ORG JAUS is an Open Systems Specification

 NUSE2

NUSE2 will serve the entire Unmanned Systems

community as long term, life cycle resources:

• Scientists
• Government
• Technologists
• Contractors
• Product
• Commercial
Developers
• Small Business
• Testers
• Academia
• Users
 NUSE2 RESOURCES

Wyoming
Camp
Guernsey

Arid
Wooded Hot
Rolling California Cold
Flat Twenty--nine
Twenty Wet
Alpine Palms; Camp
Pendleton Dry
Littoral Dust
Blue- Altitude
water Lowland
Surface
Florida Virginia
Under- Mississippi
Texas Missouri Coastal IALR/
Water Southwest Fort Waterways Systems JOUSTER
Research Leonard Experiment Station/ Site
Alaska Gulf Range
Institute Wood/ Station
Homer/Cold MANSCEN
Regions Test
Center
EXPERIMENTATION IS UNDER WAY FOR FY2005
 SUMMARY

• Technology Transfer is Important to

Our Respective Communities

• Many Nuggets to be Mined

• Conference is a Great Opportunity

• Need to Gain and Maintain Momentum