Patent ID: 7765038
Filing Date: 2010-07-27
Classification: F41H

Abstract:
1. A system for tasking a team of a plurality of unmanned vehicles executing a mission plan, each of the plurality of unmanned vehicles having an associated set of resources and an associated level of autonomy, said system comprising: a planning information manager configured to receive the mission plan, translate information from the mission plan into a desired format, and provide updates of objectives to the mission plan; a mission planner configured to receive the formatted information from the planning information manager, formulate a plurality of mission tasks from the formatted information, and determine an optimal allocation of a selected set of the plurality of unmanned vehicles to the plurality of mission tasks according to the respective associated resources and level of autonomy of the plurality of unmanned vehicles; and a user interface manager configured to communicate a set of instructions to each of the selected set of the plurality of unmanned vehicles, the set of instructions for each unmanned vehicle comprising a minimum set of instructions associated with the level of autonomy of the unmanned vehicles.