Enabling cross-platform sensor co-registration for distributed situational awareness

Christopher Scully; Trevor Bajkowski; James Keller; Grant J. Scott; Samantha Carley; Stanton Price

doi:10.1117/12.3013878

7 June 2024 Enabling cross-platform sensor co-registration for distributed situational awareness

Christopher Scully, Trevor Bajkowski, James Keller, Grant J. Scott, Samantha Carley, Stanton Price

Proceedings Volume 13051, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications VI; 1305119 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3013878
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2024, National Harbor, Maryland, United States

Abstract

In order to achieve a comprehensive situational awareness suite, there is a need to standardize how we access and manipulate information streams. These information streams are often singular, reducing information to what is relevant for a targeted sensor context, which limits their ability to allow multiple autonomous platforms to perceive based on the total available information. To enable distributed situational awareness, here we present an approach that standardizes the management of information streams across contexts of varying sensor domains. These information streams enable individual platforms to dynamically query any relevant information where it will co-register the sensor streams and be ready for perception systems to rationalize the information. This system is enabled through the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2), which provides a distributed publisher-subscriber model for communication in addition to standardization for autonomous systems, such as positional referencing, sensor processing, and dynamic mapping. Based on ROS 2’s system components, we show a system that enables sensor information to retain its generalized form, which other platforms can manipulate for their targeted need without the unnecessary destruction of data to perceive within its system. The development of this cross-platform approach to sensor co-registration is a major step toward our goal of distributed situational awareness and will enable significant research efforts in the future.

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Christopher Scully, Trevor Bajkowski, James Keller, Grant J. Scott, Samantha Carley, and Stanton Price "Enabling cross-platform sensor co-registration for distributed situational awareness", Proc. SPIE 13051, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications VI, 1305119 (7 June 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3013878

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