Enabling Interoperability among Disparate Unmanned Vehicles via Coordinated Command, Control, and Communications Strategies

Although unmanned and autonomous vehicles are continuing to rise in popularity, the lack of interoperability between disparate platforms remains an impediment to multi-vehicle, multi-domain missions. To address this problem, described herein is a one-year, three-phase research and development effort conducted jointly by researchers from the Applied Research Laboratory at the University of Hawaii, the RIP Laboratory at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, and the Underwater Systems and Technology Laboratory at the University of Porto. The focus of this effort was to investigate a Cross Domain Command, Control, and Communications paradigm for heterogenous unmanned vehicle operations that connects platforms across manufacturers, architectures, and interfaces (i.e. air, sea surface, and subsea).