Roke Develops Biologically-Inspired Threat Monitoring System for Autonomous Vehicles

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Roke Develops Biologically-Inspired Threat

Monitoring System for Autonomous Vehicles

PR Newswire

ROMSEY, England, July 12, 2012

ROMSEY,

England

,

July 12, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Roke Manor Research Ltd (Roke), a Chemring Group company, has developed

the world's first threat monitoring system for autonomous vehicles that

emulates a mammal's conditioned fear-response mechanism. The STARTLE

system uses a combination of artificial neural network and diagnostic expert

systems to continually monitor and assess potential threats.

STARTLE provides enhanced situational awareness and early threat warning to

both the autonomous vehicle and to its remote operator(s). Making use of

existing hardware, STARTLE intelligently processes information from multiple

on-board sensors, cueing systems to assess and confirm potential threats to

the vehicle.

Mike Hook, Principal Consultant at Roke, said: "STARTLE reduces operator

workload and improves vehicle efficiency on the ground by helping remote

operators to respond effectively in complex mission environments. Operators

do not want to be distracted from their mission and the time it takes them to

turn their attention to a possible threat could be too slow to save the vehicle.

"STARTLE delivers local autonomy to a vehicle by providing a mechanism for

machine situation awareness to efficiently detect and assess potential threats.

This allows vehicle sensing and processing resources to be devoted to the

assigned task, but if a threat is detected it will cue the other systems to deal

with it swiftly before continuing its mission. These vital seconds could be the

difference between mission failure and success."

About Roke

http://www.roke.co.uk

Roke, based in Romsey,

Hampshire

, is the principal electronics research and

development centre of Chemring Group Plc. Founded in 1956, Roke is one of

the UK's leading suppliers of innovative solutions and contract R&D, pioneering

developments in electronic sensors, networks and communications technology.

It employs 450 staff and has over 430 patents to its name.

About Chemring

http://www.chemring.co.uk

Chemring is a manufacturing business with facilities in eight countries selling high

technology electronics and energetic products to over eighty countries.

The Company has a diverse portfolio of products protecting military people and

platforms against a constantly changing threat.

Operating in high margin, niche markets with short product development timescales,

Chemring has the agility to rapidly react to urgent customer needs.

Chemring adopts a balanced strategy of organic growth and small bolt-on acquisitions,

and maintains balanced geographic and market profiles, with a growing presence in

non-NATO countries.

Strong R&D investment for new products and improvements in technology continually

allow Chemring to expand its addressable markets.