Redstone Report: PMUAS provides simulation for Unmanned Air Vehicles
HUNTSVILLE AL
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly called UAV’s, are a critical tool for our troops. The Army is working to improve those tools right in the Tennessee Valley.
“They’re basically the hunting dog before the hunter. It allows the soldier to see what’s out in front of it before it gets there,” said Bryan Black, Chief of Interoperability for Redstone Arsenal’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Management Office (PMUAS).
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UAV’s keep soldiers out of harm’s way, but still allow them to have a bird’s eye view of the battlefield.
“We try to ensure that the different interfaces in the system are standardized so they communicate between each other,” sad Black. The PMUAS also makes sure Army UAV’s can work with Air Force and Navy software systems.
“Similar to like a cell phone or an iPhone that you’re able to plug in to multiple devices and it instantly recognizes that it is an iPhone and understands how to communicate with that iPhone – we’re trying to build that type of concept into unmanned systems,” Black said.
When these systems are used in the battlefield there is no room for error. That’s why they have to make sure everything works in the lab before they hand it over to the soldier.
“The MUSE, which is the Multiple Unified Simulation Environment, is a UAV simulation that serves as a training device for commanders or the people in charge that are directing the battles,” Black explained.
It is basically a video game that gives the commanders an idea of what they’ll be seeing when they really use the UAV’s.
“Rather than just putting them in the field with no understanding of what they would be getting, this allows them to practice at a very low cost simulation what the wartime would be like,” he added.
The PMUAS also tests out new equipment for the UAV’s at Redstone. New cameras, weapons and other capabilities are perfected in Huntsville before they’re used at war.
