A Test and Evaluation Framework for Unmanned Surface Vehicle

Abstract

Unmanned Surface Vehicle(USV) in today’s military and commercial application is growing exponentially. Benefiting from the autonomous capability, this unmanned platform can execute various tasks without human directly control. So evaluation of their autonomy and other capabilities are critical to realize the autonomous operation ability of unmanned systems. We present the quantitative indices, typical scenes and a practical framework to test and evaluate the performance of an USV. Then a test and evaluation (T&E) framework was established for data collection. By setting up a simulation environment, it can be seen that the proposed framework gives quantified results with different testing assignments.