Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems Test and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities
The introduction of Unmanned and Autonomous Systems (UAS) brings substantial, interesting, and in many cases, new challenges to the Department of Defense’s Test and Evaluation community. The test and evaluation of UASs becomes significantly more complicated than traditional systems, especially as we...
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| author | Ferreira, Susan Medvidović, Nenad Deonandan, Indira Valerdi, Ricardo Hess, John Mikaelian, Tsoline Shull, Gayle |
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| description | The introduction of Unmanned and Autonomous Systems (UAS) brings substantial, interesting, and in many cases, new challenges to the Department of Defense’s Test and Evaluation community. The test and evaluation of UASs becomes significantly more complicated than traditional systems, especially as we approach more fully autonomous systems and need to test integrated systems of systems in joint military operational testing environments. Compounding the multi-faceted considerations involved in test and evaluation, systems have continuously increasing complexity and capabilities and can be at different maturity levels. Emergent properties, particularly those that are unplanned and undesired, also need to be considered. Challenges identified by the Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Test community and related to the test and evaluation of the UASs are discussed. This paper presents various approaches for addressing these challenges including an innovative Prescriptive and Adaptive Testing Framework and decision support system, PATFrame. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/840442019-04-11T01:16:03Z Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems Test and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities Ferreira, Susan Medvidović, Nenad Deonandan, Indira Valerdi, Ricardo Hess, John Mikaelian, Tsoline Shull, Gayle unmanned and autonomous systems (UAS) test and evaluation (T&E) prescriptive and adaptive testing framework (PATFrame) The introduction of Unmanned and Autonomous Systems (UAS) brings substantial, interesting, and in many cases, new challenges to the Department of Defense’s Test and Evaluation community. The test and evaluation of UASs becomes significantly more complicated than traditional systems, especially as we approach more fully autonomous systems and need to test integrated systems of systems in joint military operational testing environments. Compounding the multi-faceted considerations involved in test and evaluation, systems have continuously increasing complexity and capabilities and can be at different maturity levels. Emergent properties, particularly those that are unplanned and undesired, also need to be considered. Challenges identified by the Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Test community and related to the test and evaluation of the UASs are discussed. This paper presents various approaches for addressing these challenges including an innovative Prescriptive and Adaptive Testing Framework and decision support system, PATFrame. 2014-01-16T21:43:41Z 2014-01-16T21:43:41Z 2010-04-05 Technical Report Other http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84044 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | unmanned and autonomous systems (UAS) test and evaluation (T&E) prescriptive and adaptive testing framework (PATFrame) Ferreira, Susan Medvidović, Nenad Deonandan, Indira Valerdi, Ricardo Hess, John Mikaelian, Tsoline Shull, Gayle Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems Test and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities |
| title | Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems Test and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities |
| title_full | Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems Test and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities |
| title_fullStr | Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems Test and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems Test and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities |
| title_short | Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems Test and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities |
| title_sort | unmanned and autonomous systems of systems test and evaluation challenges and opportunities |
| topic | unmanned and autonomous systems (UAS) test and evaluation (T&E) prescriptive and adaptive testing framework (PATFrame) |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84044 |
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