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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 101 - Salt Lake City - March 2008
Agenda Location	8 SUBCOMMITTEE A - AERONAUTIC AND SURFACE VEHICLES 8.4 Cooperative UAV Operations for Urban Reconnaissance
Title	Cooperative UAV Operations for Urban Reconnaissance
Presenter	Cory Schumacher
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Abstract	This briefing contains an executive summary of the Cooperative Operations in Urban Terrain (COUNTER) program. This program was run by the Control Science Center of Excellence (Control Theory and Optimization Branch) of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Air Vehicles Directorate, AFRL/RBCA. This program focused on the performance of urban intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions by a heterogeneous team of small and micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This briefing gives a summary of the overall research efforts, including mission goals, architecture, technical objectives, and the control algorithms and interfaces developed during the program to allow a single operator to control the actions of several small and micro UAVs simultaneously. The operators primary role in the system is imagery and video analysis, with most of the decision-making automated to reduce operator workload, and allow operator focus on the difficult-to-automate video analysis task. Flight test results are also discussed, including participation in the Talisman Saber operational exercise.