Proceedings Article | 11 May 2007
Proc. SPIE. 6562, Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications IX
KEYWORDS: Imaging systems, Sensors, Video, Robotics, Control systems, Robots, Telecommunications, Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Unattended ground sensors, C4ISR
The Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) On-The-
Move (OTM) demonstration is an annual showcase of how innovative technologies can help modern troops increase
their situational awareness (SA) in battlefield environments. To evaluate the effectiveness these new technologies have
on the soldiers' abilities to gather situational information, the demonstration involves United States Army National
Guard troops in realistic war game scenarios at an Army Reserve training ground. The Army Research Laboratory
(ARL) was invited to participate in the event, with the objective demonstrating system-level integration of disparate
technologies developed for gathering SA information in small unit combat operations. ARL provided expertise in
Unattended Ground Sensing (UGS) technology, Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) technology, information processing
and wireless mobile ad hoc communication. The ARL C4ISR system included a system of multimodal sensors (MMS),
a trip wire imager, a man-portable robotic vehicle (PackBot), and low power sensor radios for communication between
an ARL system and a hosting platoon vehicle. This paper will focus on the integration effort of bringing the multiple
families of sensor assets together into a working system.
