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PI: James Oliver
Co-PIs:
Eliot Winer, Alexander Stoytchev, Stephen Gilbert
Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Summary: VRAC Director James Oliver and his research team received an additional $4.2 Million award from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to continue research and development of the military’s next generation control interface for unmanned aerial vehicles. The researchers are building a virtual environment that allows operators to see the vehicles, the surrounding airspace, and the terrain they are flying over as well as information from instruments, cameras, radar, and weapons systems. This novel approach promises to solve the critical operational and training challenges that must be overcome to allow a single operator to simultaneously monitor and control several semi-autonomous unmanned remote vehicles.
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