1. A Vision for an Exchangeable UxS Mission Plan
104th OGC Technical Committee
Southampton, United Kingdom
Scott Simmons
14 September 2017
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The Wild West
Kansas Barbed Wire Museum
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Standards must…
Enable business
Offer value
Preserve the
Secret Sauce
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4. What needs to be considered
Modality of operation (fly, swim, or drive)
Single unit or swarm
Starting point
Ending point
Mission extent (point, line/curve, area)
Mission type (observe, collect, engage, etc.)
Operational constraints (speed, altitude range, water depth range, weight or size constraints)
Mission and Sensor-specific parameters (specific also to the modality of operation)
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5. Build big and don’t go home
Encapsulate the major parameters for ALL types of unpersoned/uninhabited systems into a foundational standard
Profile that standard for each mode of operation
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6. Components and references in a standard
Geometry
WKT Simple Features
GML
KML
GeoJSON
CSV
Coordinate Reference Systems
Support EPSG
Mandatory “WGS 84” and “Web Mercator” to accommodate hobbyist hardware?
Modality/Mobility
Environment (fly, swim, drive)
Remote-control vs. autonomous
Full movement control vs. environmental control (e.g., balloons and free-floating buoys)
Sensors
Active vs. Passive vs. none
SWE
SensorThings
PUCK
Other standards?
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7. Preserve the secret sauce
Example for aerial photography: allow the operations software to make the following decisions
Weather: wind vs. fixed- or rotary-wing device; wind vs. flight pattern
Sensor characteristics: flight altitude and speed
Stereoscopic collect: overlap and sidelap
Power: number of flights to cover area
Enable exchange of enough information to always allow the operations software to execute the mission, but not so much information as to inhibit the competitive advantage any operations software might claim
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