Air autonomous vehicle benchmark

The term benchmark originates from the chiseled horizontal marks that surveyors made, into which an angle-iron could be placed to bracket (“bench”) a leveling rod, thus ensuring that the leveling rod can be repositioned in exactly the same place in the future. A benchmark in computer terms is the result of running a computer program, or a set of programs, in order to assess the relative performance of an object by running a number of standard tests and trials against it. The Benchmark simulation environments began in the 1990s and continue today with many different variants including the Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), Integrated Air/Missile Defense (IAMD), Chemical Biological Defense (CBD), Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) Radar, Electronic Countermeasures (ECM), and Electronic Attack (EA) Benchmarks. This latest variant of a benchmark, Air Autonomous Vehicle (AAV), for target tracking applications models autonomous air vehicles flying over littoral regions tracking surface vessels. This paper covers the capabilities of the AAV Benchmark, the initial scenario that was developed, and results showing the tradeoff between two centralized tracking algorithms.