MISSION COMPONENT EVALUATION AND RESPONSE ARCHITECTURE

• US 20150025927A1
• Filed: 07/16/2013
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Raytheon Company (Rtx Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Raytheon Company (Rtx Corporation)
• Inventors: Hershey, Paul C., Toppin, Douglas E., Dudash, Jason
• Application Number:
  US13/943,065
• Publication Number:
  US 20150025927A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.14
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063112 Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task

Abstract

This document discusses, among other things, apparatus and methods for context-aware mission management. In an example, a system can include a processing center and a plurality of mobile devices. The processing center can be configured to receive one or more mission objectives for one or more mission stages, and to receive information from a plurality of sources, the processing center including a data broker reasoner (DBR) configured to compare the information to the one or more mission objectives and to provide role-based task information for accomplishing the one or more mission objectives. The plurality of mobile devices can be configured to wirelessly communicate with the processing center, to receive login information, to register with the processing center using the login information and to display a portion of the role-based task information associated with the login information.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processing center configured to receive one or more mission objectives for one or more mission stages, and to receive information from a plurality of sources, the processing center including a data broker reasoner (DBR) configured to compare the information to the one or more mission objectives and to provide role-based task information for accomplishing the one or more mission objectives; and

a plurality of mobile devices configured to wirelessly communicate with the processing center, to receive login information, to register with the processing center using the login information and to display a portion of the role-based task information associated with the login information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more mission stages includes a predetermined list of assets for accomplishing the one or more mission objectives;

and

wherein the DBR is configured to electronically receive asset information from one or more of the plurality of sources, to compare the asset information, the predetermined list of assets and the mission objectives and to adjust one or more tasks associated with the one or more mission objectives of the one or more missions using the comparison of the asset information, the predefined list of assets and the mission objectives of the one or more missions.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the DBR is configured to wirelessly communicate a role-based task of the one or more tasks to a mobile device of the one or more mobile devices;

wherein role information associated with the role-based task matches role information associated with the login information.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the role-based task includes first task information associated with a first role and second task information associated with a second role;

and

wherein the DBR is configured to wireless communicate the first task information to a first mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices registered with the processing center using the role information associate with the login information that associates the mobile device with the first role.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the DBR is configured to electronically receive object of interest information from the one or more of the plurality of sources;

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the DBR is configured to electronically receive command asset information from the one or more of the plurality of sources;

7. The system of claim 6, wherein command asset information includes status information of an unmanned aerial vehicle.

8. The system of claim 2, wherein the plurality of mobile devices includes a first mobile device configured to be registered to the processing center in a maintenance role assigned to one mission of the plurality of missions, to display first maintenance task information received from the DBR;

to communicatively couple to a command asset, to receive diagnostic information from the command asset; and

to provide the diagnostic information to the DBR using a display of the first mobile device; and

wherein the DBR is configured to compare the diagnostic information to a mission objective of the one mission;

to adjust a task of the mission using the comparison;

to modify the first maintenance task information according to the adjusted task of the mission to provide second maintenance task information; and

to provide display information for the second maintenance task to the first mobile device if the first mobile device is registered to the processing center in the maintenance role assigned to the one mission.

9. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more mission stages include a predetermined timeline for accomplishing the one or more mission objectives;

wherein the processing center is configured to electronically receive weather information from a second one or more sources of the plurality of sources; and

wherein the DBR is configured compare the weather information, the predetermined list of assets, the asset information, and the predetermined timeline, and to adjust one or more tasks associated with one or more mission objectives of the one or more missions using the comparison of the weather information, the predetermined list of assets, the asset information, and the predetermined timeline, and the mission objectives of the one or more missions.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the DBR is configured to receive a wireless coverage map providing wireless transmission strengths associated with locations within the map, to monitor wireless communication traffic near a planned location of one mobile device of the mobile devices of the plurality of mobile devices, and to compare the planned location of the mobile device with the wireless coverage map, and to modulate a communication protocol between the processing center and the mobile device using the wireless communication traffic and the comparison.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein, when the wireless communication traffic is above a traffic threshold, or the planned location corresponds to a dead zone of wireless coverage, the DBR uploads planned task information to the mobile device, wherein the planned role-based task information is associated with the login information of the mobile device.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the login information includes location information identifying a location of a mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices and mission information associated with a particular mission of the plurality of missions;

and

wherein the DBR is configured to filter the role-based information to include role-based information associated with the particular mission and to include role-based information associated with the location of the mobile device, and to exclude role-based information associated with the particular mission and not associated with the location of the mobile device to reduce communication traffic between the processing center and the mobile device.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the DBR is configured to provide the portion of the role-based task information to a mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices based on role information received from the mobile device and on a priority level of a task associated with the role-based task information.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the DBR is configured to change the priority level of the task based on the comparison of the information to the one or more mission objectives.

15. A method comprising:

receiving one or more mission objectives for one or more mission stages at a processing center;

receiving information from a plurality of sources at the processing center;

comparing the one or more mission objectives with the information using a data broker reasoner of the processing center;

providing role-based task information for accomplishing the mission objectives using the comparison of the one or more mission objectives with the information;

receiving login information at a mobile device configured to communicatively couple to the processing center;

registering the mobile device with the processing center using the login information;

identifying a role associated with the login information; and

displaying a portion of the role-based task information at the mobile device, wherein the portion is associated with the role associated with the login information.

16. The method of claim 15, including adjusting a priority level of a mission objective using the information;

and

wherein providing role-based task information includes providing role-based task information for accomplishing the mission objectives using the priority level of the mission objective.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein receiving information from a plurality of sources at the processing center includes:

receiving weather status information from one or more of a weather satellite, land based weather station, or sea-based weather station;

receiving weather forecast information from a weather forecast system;

receiving command asset status information from a one or more of a global positioning system or a sensor associated with the command asset; and

receiving status information of an object of interest from one or more of aerial image information, or communication information;

18. The method of claim 17, wherein comparing the one or more mission objectives with the information using a data broker reasoner (DBR) includes:

comparing the weather forecast information, the status information of the object of interest, the command asset status information and operational limitations of one or more available assets using the DBR; and

adjusting a mission objective of the one or more mission objective if the comparison of the weather forecast information, the status information of the object of interest, the command asset status information and operational limitations of one or more available assets indicates a first predicted success level lower than a predetermined threshold for the mission objective using the data broker reasoner; and

transmitting second role-based task information associated with the mission objective to one or more mobile devices registered with login role information matching role information associated with the second role-based task information.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein adjusting the mission objective of the one or more mission objectives includes adjusting a timeline of the mission objective of the one or more mission objective to provide an adjusted timeline if the comparison of the weather forecast information, the status information of the object of interest, the command asset status information and operation limitations of one or more available assets indicates a second predicted success level higher than the predetermined threshold for the mission objective;

and

wherein the transmitting second role-based task information associated with the mission objective to one or more mobile devices registered with login role information matching role information associated with the second role-based task information includes transmitting a role based timeline associated with the adjusted timeline to the one or more mobile devices registered with login role information matching role information associated with the second role-based task information.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein registering the mobile device includes associating the mobile device with a particular mission stage and particular mission objective based on the login information.