Army-576 AI Route Planning Richtscheid HostIT UG

Offline route planning
for ground movement

Army-576 AI Route Planning computes vehicle and dismounted routes directly on the end device. No network connection, no cloud service, no radio emissions.

< 3 s
to return scored route options on the device
20–30 min
of manual planning it replaces, per route
TRL 7
technology readiness level
0
network connections required to plan

What it does

Route planning for ground units is done by hand today. A planner weighs elevation, surface condition, vegetation and lines of sight to known threats, which takes 20 to 30 minutes per route and has to be repeated whenever the situation changes. Where satellite navigation is jammed or connectivity cannot be assumed, digital tools that depend on either one stop working.

Army-576 AI Route Planning moves the heavy analysis to a preparation step and leaves only the calculation on the device. The result is several scored route options in under three seconds, computed offline, with the decision left to the commander.

How it works

Schematic of scored route options around a threat area A start point at lower left and a destination at upper right, with a threat area on the straight line between them. The direct line crosses the threat area and is not offered. The safest route swings below it along better surfaces. The most concealed route climbs above it through terrain that breaks line of sight. Start Destination Threat area
  • Most concealed — line of sight and terrain masking weighted
  • Safest — surface condition and traversability weighted
  • Direct line — crosses the threat area, never offered
Schematic of the scoring output. Illustration only: not operational data, not a screenshot.

Preparation

A neural network extracts roads, tracks and their condition from satellite imagery. Land cover, elevation, slope and precomputed lines of sight are packed into a compact offline terrain package for the area of operations.

On the device

The user sets start, destination and movement type, and marks threat areas. The engine returns route options scored for exposure, terrain and traversability, and respects the physical limits of the selected vehicle. Nothing leaves the device.

Status

  • Integrated as a plugin for the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK)
  • Cryptographically certified by the TAK Product Center
  • Security review completed, deployment authorised by the responsible authorising official
  • In use on U.S. Army end devices in Europe, technology readiness level 7

Applications

Defence

Dismounted and mounted movement planning for ground units operating without reliable connectivity.

Autonomy

The routing component can be licensed to manufacturers of uncrewed ground vehicles and retrofit kits as an offline planner.

Public safety

Search and rescue and wildland fire response face the same problem: incomplete maps, no connectivity, terrain that decides the route.

Company

Army-576 AI Route Planning is developed and operated by Richtscheid HostIT UG (haftungsbeschränkt), a company registered in Munich, Germany.

Legal name
Richtscheid HostIT UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Registered office
Occamstr. 5, 80802 Munich, Germany
Commercial register
HRB 289403, Amtsgericht München
Managing director
Hannes Richtscheid
VAT ID
DE367277690
Email
info@army-576.com

Team

Hannes Richtscheid

Chief Executive Officer

Routing engine, deployment and programme transition.

Raul Melendez

Chief Technology Officer

Satellite road extraction model.