BU Team to Advance Surveillance Capabilities in Autonomous Vehicles
By Mark Dwortzan
A fleet of six unmanned Navy boats patrols a stretch of Boston Harbor for suspicious individuals, vehicles entering restricted areas and incoming liquid natural gas containers. Rigged with video cameras, laser range finders, navigation and control sensors, and on-board computers — and linked together in a network — the six vessels update one another when they detect potential security breaches. Meanwhile, a human operator continually interacts with the network to obtain critical information, but finds herself overwhelmed by the task of supervising multiple autonomous vehicles subject to ever-changing conditions.
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