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Paper Abstract
Unmanned vehicle systems is an attractive technology for the military, but whose promises have remained
largely undelivered. There currently exist fielded remote controlled UGVs and high altitude
UAV whose benefits are based on standoff in low complexity environments with sufficiently low control
reaction time requirements to allow for teleoperation. While effective within there limited operational
niche such systems do not meet with the vision of future military UxV scenarios. Such scenarios envision
unmanned vehicles operating effectively in complex environments and situations with high levels of independence
and effective coordination with other machines and humans pursing high level, changing and
sometimes conflicting goals. While these aims are clearly ambitious they do provide necessary targets
and inspiration with hopes of fielding near term useful semi-autonomous unmanned systems. Autonomy
involves many fields of research including machine vision, artificial intelligence, control theory, machine
learning and distributed systems all of which are intertwined and have goals of creating more versatile
broadly applicable algorithms. Cohort is a major Applied Research Program (ARP) led by Defence R&D
Canada (DRDC) Suffield and its aim is to develop coordinated teams of unmanned vehicles (UxVs) for
urban environments. This paper will discuss the critical science being addressed by DRDC developing
semi-autonomous systems.
Paper Details
Date Published: 8 May 2007
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 6561, Unmanned Systems Technology IX, 65610G (8 May 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.720201
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6561:
Unmanned Systems Technology IX
Grant R. Gerhart; Douglas W. Gage; Charles M. Shoemaker, Editor(s)
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 6561, Unmanned Systems Technology IX, 65610G (8 May 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.720201
Show Author Affiliations
Bruce L. Digney, Defence R&D Canada-Suffield (Canada)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6561:
Unmanned Systems Technology IX
Grant R. Gerhart; Douglas W. Gage; Charles M. Shoemaker, Editor(s)
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