R.S. Klimov
The Main Research and Testing Robotics Center of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, General Officer Commanding, Colonel, 5, Seregina str., Moscow, 125167, Russia, tel.: +7(495) 333-75-67, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A.V. Lopota
Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC), Director and Chief Designer, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint-Petersburg, 194064, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-01-10, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
B.A. Spassky
PhD, RTC, Head of Department, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint-Petersburg, 194064, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-13-25, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract
The main directions of UGV development are considered. It is shown that the kingpin in modern unmanned systems effectiveness improvement is increase of their autonomy, group appliance expansion and upgrade of interaction between a robotic system and a human operator. It is noted that ground-based mobile robots for military application need to have intelligent navigation systems and provide reliable detection of objects, and a high level of autonomy will allow the robot to adapt to the mission changing during its execution. A number of technologies that provide necessary level of UGV autonomy when navigation and task realization in the work zone is given. It is shown that development of communication technologies, electronics, biotechnology and nanotechnology will impact significantly in the coming years on the performance of military operations with mobile robots. The urgency of such technologies transfer from civil to military sphere as the positioning technology, technology of high-resolution images getting, information transmission and display technologies is noted. It is emphasized that special role for the development of military robotic systems play the increasing cognitive abilities of robots under conditions of changing environments, as well as safety assurance in the interaction of robots with humans.
Key words
Military robotics, unmanned ground vehicle, UGV, autonomous robots, intelligent navigation.
Year 2015 Issue number 3 Consecutive issue number 3 Pages 3-10
UDC identifier: 001.18:623:004.896:621.865
