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Chapter 6

Route

Abstract

the use of the TDSS.

1. Introduction

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Model of the Optimal Maneuver

The chapter deals with the mathematical model for planning the optimal movement route, which has been implemented in the Tactical Decision Support System (TDSS). The model processes and evaluates the data contained in the five raster layers, which are tactically relevant for planning the movement route of troops or autonomous vehicles on the battlefield. The basis for calculating the optimal movement route is a ground surface layer, which is then modified by algorithmic and criterion relationships with the layers of hypsometry, weather attack, and the activities of enemy and friendly units. The result of mathematical model calculations is a time-optimized and safe movement route displayed on the topographic basis. The experiments realized have verified the function of the optimal movement route model when neither the reconnaissance group nor the autonomous vehicle was observed by the enemy. The total time of the UGV with the use of the TDSS to cover the route of maneuver was 67 minutes shorter than the

real time of the BRAVO group movement with the use of the TDSS and 105 minutes shorter than the real time of the ALFA group without the use of the TDSS. The comparison of responses to the attack shows that the BRAVO group using the Maneuver Control System (MCS CZ) as part of the TDSS has destroyed the attackers faster by 71 seconds than the ALFA group without

Keywords: autonomous vehicle navigation, optimal route of maneuver,

Over the past 10 years, a considerable progress has been observed in the field

ground, aerial (space), as well as maritime ones. One of the criteria for the division of autonomous systems is a degree of autonomy. The system (vehicle) can be fully autonomous, when all the functions that the system has to carry out are controlled by a vehicle itself. The semiautonomous system is autonomous only in some of its partial functions, when the complex decision function is edited and

of autonomous systems in various fields of activity. Currently, autonomous systems are used and will continue to be used in all spatial dimensions, i.e.,

controlled by the operator. In the case of ground autonomous systems

off-road capability, passability, terrain analysis

Jan Nohel, Petr Stodola and Zdeněk Flasar
