Neya Systems, LLC is proposing to develop the Unmanned Systems PeRception Evaluation Simulation System (UxPRESS). UxPRESS provides significant opportunities to increase the state of the art for autonomy by tightly coupling the development and evaluation of perception algorithms with metrics-based evaluation on real unmanned systems. UxPRESS is designed to allow existing and new perception algorithms to be evaluated and rapidly tuned for a variety of heterogeneous unmanned platforms (ground and ultimately air), resulting in greater re-use of contractor-developed innovation, reduced integration time of new capabilities, and simplifying formal analysis of expected and real-world performance to quantify systems design decisions. BENETITS: Key benefit of this research includes development of a formal framework for T & E that includes real mission capabilities and knowledge, rather than just benchtop testing with canned or simulated data.
Keywords: Test and Evaluation, Unmanned Ground Vehicles, JAUS, JPO IOP, Mission Management, Metrics
