Credit: U.S. Navy/JHUAPL
In September, a Johns Hopkins APL experiment, in collaboration with the Surface Targets Branch of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Port Hueneme, California, worked to advance the state of the art of collaborative, autonomous USV behaviors to higher speeds and larger numbers of vessels. The successful demonstration involved six surface target boats operating together at high speeds, using hardware and software that APL developed and integrated with the reliable boat control system created by the Surface Targets Branch.