Orbital Research AUTONOMOUS MOBILE CARGO HANDLING FOR CARRIER AUTOMATION - Manual

Orbital Research, Inc.
4415 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44103
Contact: Frederick J. Lisy, Ph.D.
Telephone (216) 649-0399
E-mail [email protected]
www.orbitalresearch.com
Copyright 2003
Rev. RRE 10-24-03
UTONOMOUS OBILE ARGO ANDLING OR ARRIER UTOMATION
A M C H F C A
View of Components
of a Notional Automated
Handling System Receiving Cargo
The Vision of the Cargo Handling Program
Summary
SBIR Program Overview
Orbital Research will produce a flexible, extensible
infrastructure of hardware and software components that
will improve the performance of existing human controlled
materials handling equipment aboard existing carriers and
other Navy ships while providing an evolutionary path
toward a fully autonomous materials handling system.
Orbital Research was awarded a Phase I feasibility program
by the Navy's CVNX SBIR program office. This feasibility
study was to evaluate modular and mobile cargo handling
units for optimizing material handling on board future aircraft
carriers. Orbital Research has developed a discrete event
simulation to enhance the evaluation and trade-offs between
various notional automated handling systems. This system is
designed to allow the evaluation of different hardware
platforms and guidance and control algorithms while under
various operational scenarios. The resultant platforms will
have the ability to be back-fit as well as forward fit onto
aircraft carriers and surface combatants to assure smooth
integration and acceptance over time. Thus, the original
shipboard systems may have humans in-the-loop but will be
upgradeable to a completely autonomous future system.
Orbital Research has proposed the following work for each
critical phase for this program.
Develop a notional automated cargo
handling system targeted for materials UNREP aboard
aircraft carriers. Simulate the systemand perform a
preliminary analysis of the resulting system performance.
Enhance the simulation and
begin design of automation demonstrator.
Implement a high-fidelity model
of an aircraft carrier in simulation. Refine automated cargo
handling system features and guidance & control systems by
simulation optimization. Perform hardware demonstration
of critical components of the automated cargo handling
system.
Phase I (Completed) -
Phase I Option - (Completed)
Phase II - (Started 12/02) -