UAV Roadmap - Unmanned Aircraft & Drones

UAV Roadmap 2000 – AppendixDist. autonomous agent networksIntelligent autonomous AVsInterconnectivity & Control Policy for AV clusters enabling fault-tolerantcommsFault-tolerant adaptive ctrl.Aggressive path plng. for multiple autonomous AVsExponentially unstable UAVs with Saturating ActuatorsHybrid & Intelligent ctrl. architecturesNonlinear active ctrl. of external fluid flowsDist. Multisensor Fusion Algorithms for TrackingIntelligent architecturesAdaptive ControlPassive Sensor-Based Ctrl. of Nonlinear systemsA theory of hierarchical dist. systemsData Provisioning for Mobile Agent organizationAdaptive Comm. SystemData transfer over changing networksLearning and knowledge acq.Adaptation & Control StrategiesReactive Ctrl. for Dist. UCAV NetworksApplied Bayesian & Dempster-Shafer InferenceDesign methodologies dvmt.Multi-Agent Decision Makinging and Comm.Nonlinear Ctrl. Design for Stability & PerformanceNetwork of Networks for Multi-Scale ComputingCurrent Funding Levels:FY 98 FY 99 FY 00 FY 01 FY 02$1.332M $3.573M $6.976M $6.210M $2.561MMULTIPLE LINK ANTENNA SYSTEM (MLAS)Lead Agency: NAVY / PEO(W)/PMA263, (301) 757-6403Objective/Description: The MLAS Advanced Concept TechnologyDemonstration (ACTD) is an FY00 new-start program intended to assess military utilityof an electronically steered active aperture phased array antenna based on theMultifunction Self-Aligned Gate Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MSAGMMIC) technology. It will provide two-way Ku-band communications with fourdifferent platforms simultaneously while on the move and meet the increasing demandA-38