INFORM Lab: a testbed for high-level information fusion and resource management

Pierre Valin; Adel Guitouni; Eloi Bossé; Hans Wehn; Jens Happe

doi:10.1117/12.883388

6 June 2011 INFORM Lab: a testbed for high-level information fusion and resource management

Pierre Valin, Adel Guitouni, Eloi Bossé, Hans Wehn, Jens Happe

Proceedings Volume 8064, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2011; 80640E (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883388
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

DRDC Valcartier and MDA have created an advanced simulation testbed for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of Network Enabled Operations in a Coastal Wide Area Surveillance situation, with algorithms provided by several universities. This INFORM Lab testbed allows experimenting with high-level distributed information fusion, dynamic resource management and configuration management, given multiple constraints on the resources and their communications networks. This paper describes the architecture of INFORM Lab, the essential concepts of goals and situation evidence, a selected set of algorithms for distributed information fusion and dynamic resource management, as well as auto-configurable information fusion architectures. The testbed provides general services which include a multilayer plug-and-play architecture, and a general multi-agent framework based on John Boyd's OODA loop. The testbed's performance is demonstrated on 2 types of scenarios/vignettes for 1) cooperative search-and-rescue efforts, and 2) a noncooperative smuggling scenario involving many target ships and various methods of deceit. For each mission, an appropriate subset of Canadian airborne and naval platforms are dispatched to collect situation evidence, which is fused, and then used to modify the platform trajectories for the most efficient collection of further situation evidence. These platforms are fusion nodes which obey a Command and Control node hierarchy.

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Pierre Valin, Adel Guitouni, Eloi Bossé, Hans Wehn, and Jens Happe "INFORM Lab: a testbed for high-level information fusion and resource management", Proc. SPIE 8064, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2011, 80640E (6 June 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883388

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Information fusion

Surveillance

Sensors

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Systems modeling

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