Autonomy, Navigation, Command & Control (ANCC)

Metron’s autonomy provides executive-level autonomous control with a priori and locally sensed environmental and vehicle models and data to enable extrospective and introspective decision-making, customizable to any vehicle platform in all operational domains.

Platform, Sensor, & Domain Agnostic Control System

Combines executive-level autonomous control with a priori and locally sensed environmental and vehicle models and data to enable extrospective and introspective decision-making, customizable to any vehicle platform in all operational domains.

Compatibility

Data Distribution Service (DDS) communications backbone
US Navy Unmanned Maritime Autonomy Architecture (UMAA) compliant
OpenAUV ecosystem compatible

Customizable Platform & Payload Control

Custom-designed vehicle bridge unites proven autonomy with any platform

Metron’s core autonomy has completed thousands of in-water test hours on more than a dozen platforms. Vehicle-specific propulsion, payloads, and sensors are controlled in accordance with mission concepts of operation in any environment.

Features

ANCC maximizes mission success through intelligent, adaptive, non-scripted full autonomy.

Risk and resource aware planning and execution

Complex payload management:

Multi-objective
multi‑payload
interaction/exclusion

Key Components

WATCHMAN

Comprehensively tracks adversary contracts / tracks
Monitors vehicle system, sub-system and payload health

SPHERE

Operator intent-driven behaviors (dive, transit, loiter, search, survey, anchoring, payload operations, etc.)
Payload management
Mission adaptation based on detections, patterns, and platform status
Sensor deployment based on in-situ environmental conditions and threats

WORLD MODEL

Stores and manages pre-loaded and in‑situ sensed environmental data:
Current, salinity, turbidity, conductivity, temperature, depth
Bathymetry, obstacles/hazards, keep-in/ keep-out areas

POWER MANAGEMENT

Controls power relays based on mission phase
Commands relays temporally and sequentially to maintain power bus

HELMSMAN

Monitors command execution, vehicle navigation and mission progress against predicted success based on current environment and pre-mission sim results
Issues commands to front seat driver via a custom vehicle bridge

HEALTH MANAGEMENT

Continuous system monitoring
Fault diagnosis and mitigation
Degradation predictive modeling
Plant configuration

ADAPTIVE PLANNING

On Board real-time mission (re)planning for obstacle avoidance, environmental changes, platform health, and energy consumption

VEHICLE BRIDGE

Custom designed to communicate with a specific platform, enables ANCC to exchange information with a vehicle based on hits ICD

CUSTOMIZATIONS

Sensors

FLS, INS, DVL, ADCP, SAS, SSS, MBES, LBL, USBL, and more

Communications

VLF, ACOMM, RF, Tethered

Payloads

Long-range sensing, environmental, manipulators, kinetic

Power Modes

Very Low Power Mode, Hibernate

Real World Applications

Commercial

survey of construction areas and infrastructure for near and offshore energy and transoceanic cables
search and rescue operations
maritime exploration
mobile sensors

Defense

extreme duration, undersea missions in deep or contested waters
perimeter surveillance, reconnaissance, and patrolling
mine clearance both at sea and on land

Core Technologies

ANCC builds on Metron advances in the multiple research areas.

Autonomy

Metron designs and develops custom Resilient Mission Autonomy™ software that fuses fault detection, diagnosis, prognosis and mitigation with mission requirements, priorities, and platform capabilities.

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Self-Assessment

Metron is developing technologies to improve mission reliability for unmanned vehicles via improved prognostics, intelligent planning, and adaptive decision making.

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Perception

Metron develops tools that enable autonomous systems to process sensor data to make flexible planning decisions.

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