Patent ID: 8336775

Claim:
An aerospace-ground integration testbed, comprising: a truth data generator for generating truth data configured to provide data of at least one of threats, terrain, targets and offensive and defensive systems, by processing passive date stored unprocessed in a database; a common sensor adaptor for providing sensed data generated from at least the truth data utilizing tactical sensor software; a common sensor framework for providing modeled sensed data generated from at least the truth data utilizing sensor models; a visualization module for generating visual data to be displayed from the sensed data and the modeled sensed data; a communications module for providing communication and testbed messaging between the common sensor adaptor, the common sensor framework, the truth data generator, and the visualization module; and an advanced mission control module configured to receive the sensed data and the modeled sensed data and generate autonomous platform data for an unmanned vehicle, the autonomous platform data including dynamic vehicle behavior data and commands sent to the unmanned vehicle in response to external threats, wherein the advanced mission control module includes; a ground station module, an airborne module, a mission manager module configured to automate system planning and execution functions on the airborne module such that human operators are not required to manually control individual systems of the airborne module, and a sensor manager configured to accept mission-level commands from the mission manager, re-plan mission-level tasks in real time and generates unmanned and autonomous vehicle data in accordance with the pre-planned mission plan and the received commands, to be sent to the unmanned vehicle.