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Defence and security accelerator pilot –
autonomy
OFFICIAL © Crown copyright 2016 Dstl
September 2016
Why an ‘autonomy challenge’?
Robotic and autonomous systems one of the UK ‘eight
great technologies’
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
(BIS) RAS Strategy 2020 identifies 5 key themes
• coordination
• assets
• grand challenges
• clusters
• skills
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Defence and Security innovation
challenges for autonomy
Three core themes:
• assured autonomous resupply
• autonomy in hazardous scene assessment
• counter-UAS (unmanned air systems)
– to be confirmed
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Public commitments
UK-US public announcement at Farnborough International Airshow
14 July 2016
Public announcements for Innovation Initiative
12 August and 16 September 2016
“The UK and the US are speeding up the impact that robotic and
autonomous systems can have on resupplying their armies by committing
to a joint programme, announced UK Defence Minister Philip Dunne and US
Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall today”
“ Today the department will also launch a new competition
with the Home Office to challenge industry to design unmanned
systems – robots and aircraft – that can assess hazardous scenes,
such as chemical attack sites. These collaborative challenges will
inform the development of the Defence and Security Accelerator” ?
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Vision: an ambitious 3-5 year framework to address key areas for the
UK Services and the UK Logistics Defence Authority through testing
autonomous systems applications in the field of Defence logistics for
deployed operations.
• autonomous systems employed in the
delivery of materiel to deployed forces
• autonomous technologies employed in
the decision making and command and
control of the delivery assets, supply
chain information management and
intelligent resupply
Assured autonomous resupply
Current agreed UK-US Assured Autonomous Resupply Challenge scope
• the suspected presence of
hazardous materials may
cause significant operational
impact
• rapidly establishing ground
truth enables decision making
• shared concern across
government
• what part can autonomous
systems play?
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Autonomous Hazardous Scene Assessment
(AHSA)
? ?
What effect?
• detect contamination
• identify contaminant
• determine cordons
• locate mass decontamination resources
• monitor spread of contaminant at mass
decontamination
• hazard monitoring
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What we can do
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• Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) Advisors arrive within 45 minutes at Home Office model response sites
• ready for deployment in 30 minutes
• collection and analysis of samples in 30 minutes
• inform decision making
What we can do
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• Police Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) teams arrive within 90 minutes
• ready for deployment in 15 minutes
• real time detection and classification immediately
• inform decision making
Autonomy in hazardous scene
assessment
A jointly-funded themed competition run by
CDE on behalf of the Ministry of Defence
and the Home Office
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• Incident occurs
• Alarm is raised
• Initial responders sent
Walk-through
TASKS UNDERTAKEN
• Make visual assessment
• Set initial cordon
• Relay information to
commander
• Specialists requested
IOR - DOES NOT EMPLOY
SPECIFIC EQUIPMENT
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Walk-through continued
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• Specialists arrive
• Scene declared safe
• Prepare for approach
• Make initial approach
TASKS UNDERTAKEN
• Prepare sensors and samplers
• Establish safe route of entry
• Capture imagery and sensor readings
• Download and review data, begin analysis
• Relay information to commanders
• Provide advice on interpretation SOR – ALSO REQUIRES RESCUE AND
DECONTAMINATION
Aim of this competition
To investigate whether
autonomous systems could
improve scene assessment
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Our competition
• use a two-phase
approach
• explore with
experiments and trials
• focus on 4 key tasks
9/27/2016
SURVEY
REFINE
MAP
SAMPLE
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Phase 1
• 6 month projects
• ~£1 million
• we want to fund a number of proposals at phase 1
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Phase 2
• 12 month projects
• ~£2 million
• we expect to fund a smaller number of collaborative
projects
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We want to
• establish an evidence base
• better appreciate current “art of possible”
• understand what characteristics are required
• inform potential requirements
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Initial responders
make assessment,
and link-up to HQ
– cordon shifted,
release point
observed
µUAV
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Higher fidelity
sensor refines
original data set
Additional
sensors monitor
cordon
Specialists on site Initial response
enhanced
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In this example, a UAV captures an air sample
downwind of the release, whilst a UGV
recovers a bulk sample close to the release
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A lot to ask?
• these tasks are complex and interdependent
• we don’t expect you to address every task
• we expect some tasks to be harder than others
• benefits manifest in different ways…
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How much autonomy?
• not replacing human
• augmenting their performance
• teaming with machines
• freeing the specialist
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Materials of concern
• payloads include sensors and samplers
• use simulants for this work
• propose the most appropriate for your technology
• guidance is available in competition document
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Exploitation
• military and civilian, UK and overseas
• systems approach lends itself to other use-cases
• boundaries only in place to help manage scope
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Our hopes
• your focus will remain firmly on autonomy, and on
systems engineering
• our understanding of human-machine teaming for
scene assessment will improve
• we see real progress towards machines supporting a
human-led response
• we identify disruptive options
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How will the competition
work?
Innovation Network event
22 September 2016
Emma Howe
CDE Themed Competition
Manager
Phase 1
Up to £1 million
Typically £40-80,000
Research complete by 30 June 2017
Proof of concept
Phase 2 proposal
Technical queries
dstlautonomyinnovationchallenge@dstl.
gov.uk