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Post-Westgate SWAT : C4ISTAR Architectural Framework for Autonomous Network Integrated Multifaceted Warfighting Solutions Version 1.0 : A Peer-Reviewed Monograph
Police SWAT teams and Military Special Forces face mounting pressure and
challenges from adversaries that can only be resolved by way of ever more
sophisticated inputs into tactical operations. Lethal Autonomy provides
constrained military/security forces with a viable option, but only if
implementation has got proper empirically supported foundations. Autonomous
weapon systems can be designed and developed to conduct ground, air and naval
operations. This monograph offers some insights into the challenges of
developing legal, reliable and ethical forms of autonomous weapons, that
address the gap between Police or Law Enforcement and Military operations that
is growing exponentially small. National adversaries are today in many
instances hybrid threats, that manifest criminal and military traits, these
often require deployment of hybrid-capability autonomous weapons imbued with
the capability to taken on both Military and/or Security objectives. The
Westgate Terrorist Attack of 21st September 2013 in the Westlands suburb of
Nairobi, Kenya is a very clear manifestation of the hybrid combat scenario that
required military response and police investigations against a fighting cell of
the Somalia based globally networked Al Shabaab terrorist group.Comment: 52 pages, 6 Figures, over 40 references, reviewed by a reade
Projecting Product-Aware Cues as Assembly Intentions for Human-Robot Collaboration
Collaborative environments between humans and robots are often characterized by simultaneous tasks carried out in close proximity. Recognizing robot intent in such circumstances can be crucial for operator safety and cannot be determined from robot motion alone. Projecting robot intentions on the product or the part the operator is collaborating on has the advantage that it is in the operator’s field of view and has the operator’s undivided attention. However, intention projection methods in literature use manual techniques for this purpose which can be prohibitively time consuming and unscalable to different part geometries. This problem is only more relevant in today’s manufacturing scenario that is characterized by part variety and volume. To this end, this study proposes (oriented) bounding boxes as a generalizable information construct for projecting assembly intentions that is capable of coping with different part geometries. The approach makes use of a digital thread framework for on-demand, run-time computation and retrieval of these bounding boxes from product CAD models and does so automatically without human intervention. A case-study with a real diesel engine assembly informs appreciable results and preliminary observations are discussed before presenting future directions for research.publishedVersionPeer reviewe
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