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The ONR-sponsored Naval Automation and Information Management
Technology (NAIMT) project is a collaborative effort of the US Navy,
(Panama City, FL), IHMC (Pensacola, FL), and the University of South
Florida (USF) to integrate key technologies to meet the military's
future needs for coordinating the operation of unmanned systems with
greater effectiveness and affordability.
Unmanned systems will play an increasing role in military
actions. Large numbers of unmanned ground, air, underwater, and
surface vehicles will work together, coordinated by ever smaller teams
of human operators. In order to be operationally efficient, effective
and useful, these robots must perform complex tasks with considerable
autonomy, must work together safely and reliably within policy
constraints, must operate flexibly and robustly in the face of
intermittent network availability and potentially rapid fluctuation of
available infrastructure resources, and must coordinate their actions
with each otherand with human operators. In addition, the human
operator, controlling the actions of many unmanned systems must
observe and control them in an intuitive fashion incorporating
capabilities for mixed-initiative interaction and adjustable autonomy.
AIAI is a member of the IHMC NAIMT Team inputting I-X concepts.
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