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UCATSUnmanned Control & Tracking System

Kurt ChewingJennifer GreeneDave ManleyJeanette SmithJohn Smith

Team DJ3K

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Agenda Problem & Mission Statements Schedule Conops Completed Tasks Ongoing Tasks Website Stakeholder Value Mapping UCATS Risks System-of-System Description Requirements Architecture (Functional & Physical) Algorithm Development Future Plans

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Problem Statement

Tracking Targets of Interest (TOIs) in densely populated areas present unique and difficult problems when ensuring public safety and security.

Coordinating airborne UAVs to intercept and track a TOI in an urban environment is time consuming and labor intensive.

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Mission Statement

The UCATS is a command and control system designed to: Route UAVs to TOIs Monitor the UAV location Redirect the UAVs when new tasking arrives

Primary Mission: To recommend which airborne UAVs should track TOIs Direct the UAVs on a TOI intercept course Monitor UAV position Redirect the UAVs as new TOI tasking becomes available.

Goal: Reduce manpower from five operators to a single operator Reduce mission planning time from 45 minutes to 15 minutes or

less

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CONOPs

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Networked Schedule

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Completed Tasks Project Management Plan (PMP) Statement of Work (SOW) Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) Risk Management Plan (RMP) Product Assurance Plan (PAP) System Requirements Specification (SRS) Concept of Operations (CONOPs) Use Cases Functional Model Analysis of Alternatives External System Definition & Diagrams

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Ongoing Tasks

Stakeholder Value Mapping (SVM) Functional Architecture Physical Architecture Business Case Analysis of Alternatives

Physical Architecture (Comms, Interface, Video, etc) Command & Control Stations

Algorithm Development Website

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Website

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Stakeholder Value Mapping Homeland Defense/Law Enforcement

FBI CIA DHS DEA CBP

Military Army Navy Air Force National Guard

Civilian SEOR Sponsor – K.C. Chang Team DJ3K Urban Community Industry

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Stakeholder Needs Analysis Accuracy Affordability Safety Security Reliability Maintainability Usability Availability Transparency of Operations Interoperability Portability Reproducibility Performance

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SVM Needs Analysis [2]

Work to be completed: Finalize Needs Complete assessment

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UCATS Risks

Created a Risk Management Plan to identify UCATS risks.

PriorityRisk

Risk IDNumber Risk Title Probability Impact Risk

Level Change ResponsiblePerson

1 001 Communications Reliability Frequent ExtremelyHigh

.41 NEW Team DJ3K

2 002 UAV Assignment Algorithm Occasional ExtremelyHigh

.27 NEW Team DJ3K

3 003 Timeframe Occasional High .15 NEW Team DJ3K

4 004 Team Distance Constraints Likely Moderate .06 NEW Team DJ3K

5 005 Routing of UAVs Unlikely High .005 NEW Team DJ3K

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UCATS Risks

Consequence

Pro

bab

ility

1 2 3 4 5

1

2

3

4

5

High - Major disruption in the plan.

Med - Some disruption in the plan.

Low - Little or no disruption.

UAV Assignment Algorithm

Risk Mitigation: -- Work very closely with Ashwin Samant. -- Interface regularly with project sponsor. -- Hold frequent technical reviews.

Team Distance Constraints

Routing of UAVs

TimeframeCommunications Reliability

Risk Mitigation: -- Conduct an AoA on the method of communication.

#4

#5

#3 #1

#2

Technical Risk

Technical RiskSchedule Risk

Technical Risk

Technical Risk

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System-of-Systems (SOS) Functionality

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SOS External Systems Diagram

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UCATS SRS Mission Requirements UCATS shall generate an intercept plan

Predicted Target of Interest (TOI) TOI location TOI intercept feasibility UAV intercept routes to TOI UAV(s) to TOI assignments

UCATS shall be capable of directing new tasking to UAVs to new TOIs.

UCATS shall communicate with generic medium size UAVs up to 40 miles away from the UCATS.

Only one operator is needed to interface with UCATS to obtain full UCATS functionality.

UCATS shall command and control up to five UAVs.

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UCATS Functional Architecture [1] Used AoA to determine UCATS functional

architecture UCATS top level function Provide Command

and Control Functions decomposed into four level one functions Communicate With UAV Accept Operator Requests and Provide Feedback Compute UAV Presets Accept Video and Display

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UCATS Functional Architecture [2]

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UCATS Functional Architecture [3] Level One Functions mapped to UCATS

components Functions decomposed two levels deep Input, Outputs, and Constraints defined IDEF0 used to model Functional Architecture Future Task, Map Functional and Physical

Architect to Operational Requirements

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UCATS Functional Architecture [4]

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UCATS Generic Physical Architecture

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UCATS Generic Physical Architecture UCATS Built from four components

Comms Module: Sends messages to and receives data from the UAV

Interface Module: comprises the Human Computer Interface for UCATS

Presetting Algorithm Module: contains the algorithm needed to provide operator recommendations

Video Module: receives and displays video

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Algorithm Past Development Tracking algorithm previously developed

Tangent-plus-Lyapunov Vector Field Guidance (T+LVFG)

MatLab Algorithms Incorporated Google Earth Visualization

(GUI) Java Script

Designed for 2 UAVs & 2 TOIs

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Algorithm Current Development Allow for various combinations of UAVs and TOIs

5v5, 5v3, 3v5, etc Obstacle Avoidance

Intergration with tracking algorithm TOI Priority

What UAV should track which TOI Greedy Algorithm

Enhance web interface with user Spiral development

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Algorithm Current Development [2] TOI Priority

3 Cases # of UAVs = # of TOIs # of UAVs > # of TOIs # of UAVs < # of TOIs

Highest priority TOI assessed first Closest UAV to TOI is assigned based on

distance Dynamically changing TOI priority

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Algorithm GUI Development

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Algorithm Future Development TOI Priority

UAV and TOI heading UAV altitude for multiple UAVs tracking the same

TOI Communication Simulation

Loss of signal due to range Loss of signal due to shadowing

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Future Plans Continue work on…

Getting Stakeholder Approval/Comments on value mapping, SRS, and functional and physical architecture

Finalize Functional Architecture Complete AoAs for Physical Architecture instantiation Algorithm Development Prototype Business Case Analysis of Alternatives Website Final Report & Presentation

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Questions?