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Talk-18: pTAKBridge: Integrating MOOS-IvP Autonomy with the TAK Ecosystem
Michael DeFilippo
MIT Dept of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Sea Grant
The Team Awareness Kit (TAK) ecosystem including ATAK, WinTAK, and TAK Server has become a widely adopted situational awareness and command-and-control standard across defense and first-responder communities. As autonomous marine platforms increasingly operate alongside TAK-equipped forces, there is a practical need to surface MOOS-IvP vehicle state within TAK operator interfaces and allow TAK-side operators to cue autonomous behaviors without deep knowledge of the MOOS stack.
|pTAKBridge| is a MOOS application that translates MOOS community state vehicle positions, contact tracks, and mission events into Cursor-on-Target (CoT) XML messages for TAK Server ingestion, and maps incoming TAK operator inputs back into MOOS variables for IvP Helm consumption. A lite version of |pTAKBridge| will be freely available for download ahead of the conference, and Demo Day participants are encouraged to install it and connect to the live vehicle demonstrations viewing MOOS-IvP-driven platforms as real-time tracks directly in their own ATAK or WinTAK clients.
Categories:
- TAK
- Command and Control
- Situational Awareness