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Thesis Organization NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA CONSORTIUM FOR ROBOTICS AND UNMANNED SYSTEMS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (CRUSER) FY17 ANNUAL REPORT Prepared by Lyla Englehorn, Faculty Associate – Research December 2017 Approved for public release: distribution unlimited Prepared for: Raymond R. Buettner Jr., CRUSER Director and Dr. Brian Bingham, CRUSER Deputy Director THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Form Approved REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing this collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports (0704-0188), 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302. Respondents should be aware that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control number. PLEASE DO NOT RETURN YOUR FORM TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS. 1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YYYY) 2. REPORT TYPE 3. DATES COVERED (From-To) 30 December 2017 Technical Report 1 Oct 2016 – 30 Sept 2017 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) FY17 Annual Report 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) 5d. PROJECT NUMBER Lyla Englehorn, MPP 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) ORGANIZATION REPORT 1 University Circle NUMBER Monterey CA 93943 9. SPONSORING / MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR’S Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy – PPOI ACRONYM(S) 100 Navy Pentagon Room 5E171 USECNAV/ONR Washington, DC 20350 11. SPONSOR/MONITOR’S Office of Naval Research (ONR) REPORT NUMBER(S) One Liberty Center, 875 North Randolph Street, Suite 1425 Arlington, VA 22203-1995 12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Approved for public release: distribution unlimited 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES This report is not the work of one author, but a compilation of event reports and funded research summaries for FY17 14. ABSTRACT The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) provides a collaborative environment and community of interest for the advancement of unmanned systems (UxS) education and research endeavors across the Navy (USN), Marine Corps (USMC) and Department of Defense (DoD). CRUSER is a Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) initiative to build an inclusive community of interest on the application of unmanned systems (UxS) in military and naval operations. This FY17 annual report summarizes CRUSER activities in its seventh year of operations, and highlights future plans. 15. SUBJECT TERMS Autonomy, autonomous systems, robotics, RAS, unmanned systems, UxS, UAV, USV, UGV, UUV 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION 18. NUMBER 19a. NAME OF a. REPORT b. ABSTRACT c. THIS PAGE OF ABSTRACT OF PAGES RESPONSIBLE PERSON UNCLASS UNCLASS UNCLASS UU 151 Lyla Englehorn 19b. TELEPHONE NUMBER (include area code) 831-656-2615 Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8-98) Prescribed by ANSI Std. Z39.18 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL Monterey, California 93943-5000 Ronald A. Route Steven R. Lerman President Provost The report entitled “Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) FY17 Annual Report” was prepared for the Office of the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV), 1000 Navy Pentagon, Room 4D652, Washington, DC 20350. Further distribution of all or part of this report is authorized. This report was prepared by: ________________________ Lyla Englehorn, MPP CRUSER Associate Director Reviewed by: Released by: ________________________ ________________________ Raymond R. Buettner Jr., PhD Jeffrey D. Paduan, PhD CRUSER Director Dean of Research THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK UNCLASSIFIED//Approved for public release: distribution unlimited CONSORTIUM FOR ROBOTICS AND UNMANNED SYSTEMS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (CRUSER): FY17 Annual Report Prepared by Lyla Englehorn, CRUSER Associate Director for Dr. Raymond R. Buettner Jr., CRUSER Director; Dr. Brian Bingham, CRUSER Deputy Director NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL December 2017 ii THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK iii TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................. VI I. BACKGROUND ..........................................................................................................1 A. VISION .............................................................................................................2 B. MANAGEMENT .............................................................................................3 C. FY17 PROGRAM ACTIVITY SUMMARY .................................................4 II. PRIORITIES ................................................................................................................7 A. RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION ..................................................7 1. Investigation of Requirements and Capabilities of Next Generation Mine Warfare (MIW) Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) ...9 2. Multi-Domain Mesh Network of Short Appearance Unmanned Nodes ..............................................................................................................11 3. Cooperative Underwater Sensing with Aqua-Quad .......................13 4. Alternative PNT for Persistent Undersea Navigation ....................16 5. Arctic ScanEagle ................................................................................17 6. UAV EM Sensors for Spectrum Sensing and Propagation Environment Assessment ..................................................................18 7. Closing the Experimental Gap in the Search and MCM Communities ..............................................................................................................19 8. Bio-inspired MEMS Acoustic Sensor for Robotic Autonomous Systems Applications .........................................................................21 9. Investigation of Unsteady Hydrodynamic Loads an a UUV During Near Surface Operations ...................................................................24 10. Low-Cost Expendable UAS with Application to Low Altitude Atmospheric Measurements - Phase II ............................................26 11. C2 Design for Asymmetric Advantage: Teams of Autonomous Systems & People ...............................................................................28 12. Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion from Autonomous Platforms with 3D Modeling .............................................................................................31 13. Network Enabled Digital Swarm Image Synthesis (NEDSIS) .......32 14. Innovations in Unmanned Technologies for Humanitarian Assistance and More .............................................................................................34 15. Study of Security Primitives for the Robot Operating System (ROS) of UAV Swarms ......................................................................................36 16. RoboDojo ............................................................................................38 17. Autonomous Wave Glider Based Measurements and Analyses in Support of Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMW) ..............40 18. Vision-Based Navigation and Guidance for Swarm UAS ..............42 19. Prototyping of Air-Launched Fast Recon UAS...............................46 iv 20. Optimal Trajectory Generation for Small Drones Used as Micro Interceptors ........................................................................................48 B. EXPERIMENTATION .................................................................................50 1. JIFX .....................................................................................................51 2. MTX ....................................................................................................52 C. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ...................................................................52 1. NPS Course Offerings and Class Projects .......................................53 a. Capstone Projects ....................................................................53 b. Courses ....................................................................................54 2. Robotics Short Course Development ...............................................59 3. Continuing Education Panel Series ..................................................60 4. CRUSER Colloquiums ......................................................................61 5. NPS Student Theses and Travel .......................................................63 D. CONCEPT GENERATION ..........................................................................70 1. Warfare Innovation Continuum (WIC) Workshop 2017...............71 2. Technology Continuum (TechCon) 2017 .........................................75 E. OUTREACH AND RELATIONSHIPS .......................................................76 1. Community of Interest ......................................................................76
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