2022 UAF Summit: Using UAF to Define Army Vehicle Architectures

Abstract: AGVRA is the Reference Architecture for Autonomous Ground Vehicles that will provide architectural guidelines and best practices, business and technical, for the Army Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) community. AGVRA 3.0 consists of a suite of nine interoperable domain specific reference architectures that cover the design problem all the way from the organizational capabilities down to low-level details of the brake actuators in a combat vehicle. In addition to giving an overview of AGVRA itself, this presentation will cover the top two layers of the AGVRA suite: Large Unit Mission (LUM) based on UAF and Small Team Task Model (STM) based on SysML. Finally, we will conclude with a brief discussion of some of the practical tooling challenges we encountered in doing this work as well as some related fundamental digital engineering challenges that could benefit from the attention of the OMG community. Bio: Shannon has twenty years of experience in Systems Engineering in both automotive and defense domains. His experience includes numerous electromechanical devices and shift by wire actuators from multiple perspectives including safety, quality and electrical engineering. Shannon has a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Kettering University (formally known as GMI) located in Flint, Michigan. He lives with his wife and three children in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. Bio: David is a Principal at System Strategy, Inc. David has over thirty years of experience in Software and Systems Engineering in multiple domains. David has experience in automotive radar design, software safety for offshore oil rigs, infotainment software design, and ISO 26262 functional safety. David is the author of the SysML for Beginners book series and speaks both Japanese and German fluently. David received a BA in Mathematics from the University of California San Diego and an MBA from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.