This video shows describes new autonomy technology that enabled a team of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to execute cooperative behaviors in the ‘USV Swarm II’ harbor patrol demonstration, using JPL’s CARACaS autonomy architecture. In USV Swarm II, CARACaS demonstrated higher levels of autonomy and more complex cooperation than previous on-water exercises, using full-sized vehicles and real-world sensing and communication. Significantly, CARACaS not only executed tasks such as Patrol, Track, Inspect, and Trial safely and efficiently but also recognized what tasks needed to be accomplished based on a dynamic world model, eliminating the need for an operator in the loop.
