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ABSTRACT Over the last several years all branches of the United States military have experienced an increased number of orthopedic and internal injuries to knees lower back, neck, and digestive system. Additionally the level of severity has also been increasing. Primary cause factors contributing to the overall increase in injuries to US military personnel include the increase in overall individual loads being carried by the individual soldier which at times can approach 150 pounds, higher operations tempo which results in greater exposure to higher levels of impact forces and for a greater duration. The greater impact forces are a result of the poor design of the current bench deployed on United States tactical vehicles, and the brutal nature of the third world transportation networks in Afghanistan and Iraq. This paper documents the engineering approach utilized by AOM Engineering Solutions to achieve the following primary design objectives; improved ergonomic design for injury
Micheli, JohnDonovan, LTC Ken
ABSTRACT This paper will discuss trends in compatibility issues between radio systems and Tactical Vehicle on-board systems which have been identified as potential interference sources and discuss electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) between co-located radio systems. All Tactical vehicles have electronic systems which come as part of the base vehicle, such as lights, air-conditioners, wind shield wipers, etc. all of which have the potential to disrupt communications. To further complicate the radio frequency environment today’s tactical vehicles are being outfitted with new sophisticated technology such as programmable communications systems, sensor systems and remote weapon stations. The new systems are complex and are subject to emitting and absorbing electromagnetic radiation which can severely degrade radio system performance and cause inadvertent electromagnetic fratricide
Busayadilok, TanyaBohn, Frank A.
ABSTRACT Today’s battlefield requires access to information in a multitude of environments with varying terrains (both urban and rural) in either passive or active engagements. Ground vehicles need sensors that can be rapidly deployed to different locations and networked into the family of vehicles in order to effectively share information. Masted sensor systems, in particular, are a potential valuable resource with their ability to perform long-range surveillance over obstructions while minimizing vehicle exposure. To maximize effectiveness these systems must withstand harsh battlefield conditions without undue maintenance. The need for variable mast heights, on-the-move (OTM) sensor performance, the ability to support a wide variety of long-range sensors, internal cabling to better resist battlefield damage, resistance to armored vehicle vibration and shock environments, and rapid mast deployment and stowage have driven Lockheed Martin to a robust mast solution that meets this
Neely, DavidFosen, KeithPoteat, DanielCarmichael, D. Brian
ABSTRACT Supporting Open Architecture is a key to most major automation and control suppliers. In every industry, there is a desire to make a unified control system architecture that can easily integrate control system equipment from multiple suppliers. Whether it is a Navy military application or an industrial application, the needs are almost identical. Some of the keys to providing this transparency among control systems are utilizing an open standard that can pull together communications from multiple suppliers. In this paper, SIEMENS will demonstrate the capabilities of utilizing an open standard, which is PROFINET. By adhering to the PROFINET standards, Open Architecture is achieved at many levels in a naval application. Open Architecture is intended to yield modular, interoperable systems that adhere to open standards with published interfaces. As will be demonstrated by this paper, PROFINET provides these capabilities and more. By implementing PROFINET as the infrastructure for
Cantrell, Wayne
ABSTRACT A combination of real world experience and new research initiatives will open up the universe of prognostic and diagnostic algorithms that can be created in the future. This presents the challenge of creating a system architecture that enables effective support of an infinite set of future algorithms even before they have been conceived, designed, implemented, tested, and approved for use. The Arbor architecture enables five critical elements to meet this challenge: (1) clean integration between legacy and new software, (2) remote, over the air provisioning of algorithms, (3) flexible data structures capable of evolving, (4) control points for the algorithm to report findings to in-vehicle occupants, and (4) a data collection strategy for failure incident reporting. Many algorithms are impossible to develop until we collect real world performance and failure information from on the vehicle. The Arbor system collects this information and feeds it off-board for analysis
Branigan, JamesCunningham, JohnDempsey, PatrickHackleman, BrettVanderLei, Paul
ABSTRACT Raytheon is in the final stages of production of three high performance thermal imaging / fire control systems being integrated on existing USMC and US Army armored vehicles. A goal in the design of these systems was to provide integration into the host vehicle that when viewed by the customer and user provided the enhanced capabilities of today’s latest thermal imaging and image processing technology as well as operating in concert with the vehicle as originally designed. This paper will summarize the technical solutions for each of these programs emphasizing the thermal imaging, fire control, image processing and vehicle integration technologies. It will also outline guiding philosophies and lessons learned used to focus the design team in achieving the successful integration. The programs to be reviewed are; USMC 2nd Gen Thermal Imaging System, the USMC LAV-25 Improved Thermal Sight System (ITSS) and the USMC / US Army M1A1 50 Cal Thermal Sight / DayTV System
LaSala, Paul V.Raaum, Bryan J.
ABSTRACT Modern military forces need an alternative to radio-frequency (RF) based communications between tactical vehicles. Free Space Optics (FSO) can provide that alternative but, to date, the design and form-factor of the equipment precluded considering it as a viable solution. Recent advances in FSO technologies are changing that and systems suitable for use in tactical field operations are currently being introduced into the battlefield by the special operations community. This paper explores some of the issues associated with adapting FSO to mobile vehicular applications and provides an overview of the current maturity and capabilities of these technologies
Volfson, LeoStautz, Mr. Tom
ABSTRACT Embedded systems are becoming increasingly complex and more distributed. Cost and quality requirements necessitate reuse of the functional software components for multiple deployment architectures. An important step is the allocation of software components to hardware. During this process the differences between the hardware and application software architectures must be reconciled. In this paper we discuss an architecture driven approach involving model-based techniques to resolve these differences and integrate hardware and software components. The system architecture serves as the underpinning based on which distributed real-time components can be generated. Generation of various embedded system architectures using the same functional architecture is discussed. The approach leverages the following technologies – IME (Integrated Modeling Environment), the SAE AADL (Architecture Analysis and Design Language), and Ocarina. The approach is illustrated using the electronic
Raghav, GopalGopalswamy, SwaminathanRadhakrishnan, KarthikeyanDelange, JulienHugues, Jérôme
ABSTRACT Over time, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has refined the 4Dimension / Real-time Control System (4D/RCS) architecture for use in Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). This architecture, when applied to a fully autonomous vehicle designed for missions in urban environments, can greatly assist in the process of saving time and lives by creating a more intelligent vehicle that acts in a safer and more efficient manner. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI®) has undertaken the Southwest Safe Transport Initiative (SSTI) aimed at investigating the development and commercialization of vehicle autonomy as well as vehicle-based telemetry systems to improve active safety systems and autonomy. This paper will discuss the implementation of the 4D/RCS architecture to the SSTI autonomous vehicle, a 2006 Ford Explorer
McWilliams, GeorgeBrown, Michael
ABSTRACT Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis (PPCA) is a promising tool for validating tests and computational models by means of comparing the multivariate time histories they generate to available field data. Following PPCA by interval-based Bayesian hypothesis testing enables acceptance or rejection of the tests and models given the available field data. In this work, we investigate the robustness of this methodology and present sensitivity studies of validating hybrid powertrain models of a military vehicle simulated over different proving ground courses
Pai, YogitaKokkolaras, MichaelHulbert, GregoryPapalambros, PanosPozolo, Michael K.Fu, YanYang, Ren-JyeBarbat, Saeed
Abstract On the Mobile Detection Assessment Response System (MDARS) production program, General Dynamics Robotics Systems (GDRS) and International Logistics Systems (ILS), are working with the US Army’s Product Manager – Force Protection Systems (PM-FPS) to reduce system costs throughout the production lifecycle. Under this process, GDRS works through an Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) process to improve the reliability and maintainability of subsystem designs with the goal of making the entire system more producible at a lower cost. In addition, GDRS recommends substitutions of Government requirements that are cost drivers with those that reduce cost impact but do not result in reduced capability for the end user. This paper describes the production lifecycle process for the MDARS system and recommends future considerations for fielding of complex autonomous robotic systems
Frederick, BrianVirtz, PaulGrinnell, Michal
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