Carmenta Receives Best Paper Award at GVSETS 2025

We are proud to announce that Carmenta yesterday received the Best Paper Award for our technical paper presented at the Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics track at GVSETS 2025!

The paper “Optimizing Firing Position Usage for Survivability and Effectiveness in Artillery Shoot-and-Scoot Tactics” was officially presented at GVSETS (Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium) in Novi, Michigan. It was co-authored by software engineers Thomas Jonsson Damgaard and Mikael Rittri, PhD.

The paper explores how artillery units can select and relocate between firing positions to reduce vulnerability and maintain operational effectiveness. It introduces  and evaluates algorithmic approaches that balance travel time with strict rules on avoiding previously used locations. The paper shows that one can get good solutions reasonably fast by running a randomized algorithm repeatedly and that problem reduction via independent sets can improve performance.

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The presentation at GVSETS marks the third consecutive year that Carmenta has had a technical paper selected by the AAIR Technical Board.

Our previous AAIR papers have explored key challenges in advancing mission-critical capabilities, including:

• Robust Path Planning in the Battlefield: Enhancing combat effectiveness through precise route planning to ensure safe, efficient, and stealthy maneuverability.
• Risk-Adaptive Rendezvous Planning for Resupply Missions: Delivering dynamic, risk-aware solutions for secure and timely resupply under combat conditions.