Anthony Finn and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.) Innovations in Defence Support Systems 1

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1 Anthony Finn and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.) Innovations in Defence Support Systems 1

2 Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 304 Editor-in-Chief Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Newelska Warsaw Poland kacprzyk@ibspan.waw.pl Further volumes of this series can be found on our homepage: springer.com Vol Husrev Taha Sencar, Sergio Velastin, Nikolaos Nikolaidis, and Shiguo Lian (Eds.) Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications, 2010 ISBN Vol Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Radoslaw Katarzyniak, and Shyi-Ming Chen (Eds.) Advances in Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2010 ISBN Vol Juan R. González, David Alejandro Pelta, Carlos Cruz, Germán Terrazas, and Natalio Krasnogor (Eds.) Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2010), 2010 ISBN Vol Roberto Cipolla, Sebastiano Battiato, and Giovanni Maria Farinella (Eds.) Computer Vision, 2010 ISBN Vol Zeev Volkovich, Alexander Bolshoy,Valery Kirzhner, and Zeev Barzily Genome Clustering, 2010 ISBN Vol Dan Schonfeld, Caifeng Shan, Dacheng Tao, and Liang Wang (Eds.) Video Search and Mining, 2010 ISBN Vol I-Hsien Ting, Hui-Ju Wu, Tien-Hwa Ho (Eds.) Mining and Analyzing Social Networks, 2010 ISBN Vol. 289.AnneHåkansson, Ronald Hartung, and Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (Eds.) Agent and Multi-agent Technology for Internet and Enterprise Systems, 2010 ISBN Vol Weiliang Xu and John Bronlund Mastication Robots, 2010 ISBN Vol Shimon Whiteson Adaptive Representations for Reinforcement Learning, 2010 ISBN Vol Fabrice Guillet, Gilbert Ritschard, Henri Briand, Djamel A. Zighed (Eds.) Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management, 2010 ISBN Vol Anthony Brabazon, Michael O Neill, and Dietmar Maringer (Eds.) Natural Computing in Computational Finance, 2010 ISBN Vol Manuel F.M. Barros, Jorge M.C. Guilherme, and Nuno C.G. Horta Analog Circuits and Systems Optimization based on Evolutionary Computation Techniques, 2010 ISBN Vol Roger Lee (Ed.) Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing, 2010 ISBN Vol Roger Lee (Ed.) Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, 2010 ISBN Vol Tania Tronco (Ed.) New Network Architectures, 2010 ISBN Vol Adam Wierzbicki Trust and Fairness in Open, Distributed Systems, 2010 ISBN Vol. 299.Vassil Sgurev, Mincho Hadjiski, and Janusz Kacprzyk (Eds.) Intelligent Systems: From Theory to Practice, 2010 ISBN Vol Baoding Liu (Ed.) Uncertainty Theory, 2010 ISBN Vol Giuliano Armano, Marco de Gemmis, Giovanni Semeraro, and Eloisa Vargiu (Eds.) Intelligent Information Access, 2010 ISBN Vol Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi,Ajith Abraham, and Swagatam Das (Eds.) Computational Intelligence in Power Engineering, 2010 ISBN Vol Joachim Diederich, Cengiz Gunay, and James M. Hogan Recruitment Learning, 2010 ISBN Vol Anthony Finn and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.) Innovations in Defence Support Systems 1, 2010 ISBN

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4 Prof. Anthony Finn School of Electrical and Information Engineering University of South Australia Adelaide Mawson Lakes Campus South Australia Australia Prof.LakhmiC.Jain School of Electrical and Information Engineering University of South Australia Adelaide Mawson Lakes Campus South Australia Australia Lakhmi.jain@unisa.edu.au ISBN e-isbn DOI / Studies in Computational Intelligence ISSN X Library of Congress Control Number: c 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typeset & Cover Design: Scientific Publishing Services Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India. Printed on acid-free paper springer.com

5 Preface The 15 th Century Italian diplomat, philosopher, politician, writer and musician, Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, once wrote, There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For those in the field of Defence Support Systems, these words are particularly pertinent and current. In part, this is because the past few decades have seen an explosion in technological expansion and innovation, largely driven by advances in miniaturisation, sensing, power consumption, autonomy, networking, communications and information processing; and much greater commercial availability. In part, the famous Florentine s words still hold true because Defence Support Systems comprise a complex spectrum of technical and socio-technical enterprises as military capability arises from an integration of the technology with the social systems into which it is embedded. As a result, opportunities are emerging and evolving at a rate almost an order of magnitude faster than the traditional military development, acquisition, and integration cycles can handle. In particular, our capacity to test the viability of these new technologies, capture and exploit their next-generation capabilities, and then evolve the totally new operational and deployment concepts and cost-capability trade-offs that emerge as a result of the technology s novelty and availability is being sorely tested. Innovations in the area of Defence Support Systems are multi-disciplinary, cover a broad range of technologies, and could not possibly be covered within a single volume. However, many of particular note are driven by factors such as cost effectiveness, the need to work with legacy systems, and a move towards single operator, high workload environments that are dependent upon a number of automated support systems. In other words drivers relevant to small defence forces that typically depend upon a few such systems to act as force-multipliers. This book is aimed at helping these militaries to wrestle with the alignment and integration of these novel and innovative support systems for the development of a more integrated and operationally flexible force. Anthony Finn Lakhmi Jain

6 Contents Chapter 1 On the Transition of Innovation and Technology in Defence... 1 Anthony Finn Chapter 2 Inserting Innovations In-Service Clive Kerr, Robert Phaal, David Probert Chapter 3 Classification of Battlefield Ground Vehicles Based on the Acoustic Emissions Hongwei Wu, Jerry M. Mendel Chapter 4 Convoy Movement Problem An Optimization Perspective P.N. Ram Kumar, T.T. Narendran Chapter 5 Machine Vision Algorithms for Autonomous Aerial Refueling for UAVs Using the USAF Refueling Boom Method Mario L. Fravolini, Marco Mammarella, Giampiero Campa, Marcello R. Napolitano, Mario Perhinschi Chapter 6 Motion Optimization Scheme for Cooperative Mobile Robots Stephen J. Franklin, Anthony Finn, John E. Pattison, Lakhmi C. Jain Chapter 7 An Automated Decision System for Landmine Detection and Classification Using Metal Detector Signals Minh Dao-Johnson Tran, Canicious Abeynayake, Lakhmi C. Jain, C.P. Lim Author Index