• The US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has designed the most advanced robotic arm yet. (cnet.com)
  • According to information published by the U.S. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) on September 16, 2022, Teams involved in DARPA's Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program have one experiment under their belts and will focus on even more difficult off-road landscapes at Camp Roberts, California, September 15-27. (armyrecognition.com)
  • One of the more controversial planned future applications of this technology is the armed robotic system, such as the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) now being developed for a joint Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/Air Force Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) program. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • March 14, 2014 - via USA Today The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is stepping up its research on several programs, including doubling its planned spending on the Hydra program, an underwater "truck" that would carry unmanned submarines and aerial drones. (auvac.org)
  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) is a participant in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) LAGR (Learning Applied to Ground Robots) Program. (iospress.com)
  • Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, WI, has been working on its unmanned vehicle system platform for years, starting with its vehicle submission for the 2004 DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Challenge. (oemoffhighway.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the finals of the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge will be held at the Louisville Mega Cavern in Louisville, Kentucky on September 21-23, 2021. (therobotreport.com)
  • In parallel with naval efforts, development programs sponsored by the Army, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) have been ongoing for 20 years. (nationalacademies.org)
  • As a response to the challenge, MARBLE is a small team of autonomous robotic drones (ground, legged, and aerial) equipped to deploy a temporary, highly adaptable wireless mesh network and use it to simultaneously map, navigate and search the underground environment's tunnels, identify artifacts and communicate information to an above-ground relay station. (colorado.edu)
  • Five thousand robotic vehicles and drones are deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (futurismic.com)
  • Today's emerging threats on the modern battlefield are small and inexpensive unmanned aerial and ground systems also called drones which can easily be purchased on the Internet. (armyrecognition.com)
  • To counter these drones, American Company Northrop Grumman has developed a counter-UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) solution by combining three technologies including the M-ACE system, Bushmaster chain guns, and specific ammunition. (armyrecognition.com)
  • Loianno, who was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Lab before coming to Tandon, is engaged in developing increasingly small and more autonomous drones - with one basic challenge being that the smaller the unit, the more difficult it is to build in features that allow for autonomy related to agile navigation, transportation, and interaction with the environment. (kumarrobotics.org)
  • Drones that fly or crawl on the ground are controlled by radio waves, but it is difficult - often impossible - to communicate with underwater vehicles. (auvac.org)
  • Swarms of aerial drones could, for instance, detect an enemy surface vessel and relay information to unmanned surface vessels or undersea drones to investigate or even attack. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Swarms of small aerial drones, engineered with advanced computer algorithms, could coordinate with surface and undersea vehicles as part of an integrated mission, he explained. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Today, consumer drones are starting to match the capabilities of the fancy Predators and other custom-made, expensive unmanned aerial vehicles flown by the U.S. military. (singularityhub.com)
  • At this week's DSEI Defence exhibition in London, SpearUAV unveiled its Multi Canister Launcher (MCL) Viper system, which is bolted onto the outside of conventional and robotic military vehicles to launch Viper drones without exposing soldiers to harm. (newatlas.com)
  • The US Deputy Secretary of Defense has officially kicked off the AI drone wars, announcing a radical "Replicator" plan to put many thousands of intelligent autonomous war drones into service within 18-24 months, to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. (newatlas.com)
  • Vladimir Neelov, a military expert at the Russian Center for Strategic Perspectives Research , told The Defense Post that in the past five to six years, Russia has been actively engaged in the development of robotic systems such as drones, land and marine systems. (thedefensepost.com)
  • The DARPA Subterranean, or "SubT", Challenge seeks novel approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments during time-sensitive combat operations or disaster response scenarios. (colorado.edu)
  • This paper presents a novel strategy for autonomous teamed exploration of subterranean environments using legged and aerial robots. (ntnu.no)
  • This article presents the core technologies and deployment strategies of Team CERBERUS that enabled our winning run in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge finals. (ntnu.no)
  • Autonomous exploration of subterranean environments constitutes a major frontier for robotic systems as underground settings present key challenges that can render robot autonomy hard to achieve. (ntnu.no)
  • This paper presents and discusses algorithms, hardware, and software architecture developed by the TEAM CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots), competing in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. (catalyzex.com)
  • We discuss the specific results and lessons learned from fielding this solution in the challenging courses of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge competition. (catalyzex.com)
  • The Navy officials envision swarms of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) being used to form a defensive perimeter around larger ships and to surround enemy ships. (informationweek.com)
  • GreenSight has been awarded a 2 year contract from DARPA's Strategic Technology Office to develop the technology under the "Distributed, Secure, and Trusted Processing for Heterogeneous Swarms of Autonomous Vehicles" SBIR solicitation. (turfcloud.com)
  • The platform is targeted at applications in military and commercial robotic swarms, self driving vehicles and other high reliability systems like spacecraft. (turfcloud.com)
  • Once it has been primed with target information it can work on its own to select the best target and co-operate with up 24 other missiles to coordinate a staggered attack against swarms of enemy vehicles or boats, if it can't find a target it will self-destruct. (curious-droid.com)
  • Mobile robots can be "autonomous" (AMR - autonomous mobile robot) which means they are capable of navigating an uncontrolled environment without the need for physical or electro-mechanical guidance devices. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hospitals have been using autonomous mobile robots to move materials for many years. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mobile robots may be classified by:[citation needed] The environment in which they travel: Land or home robots are usually referred to as Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). (wikipedia.org)
  • Delivery & Transportation robots can move materials and supplies through a work environment Aerial robots are usually referred to as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Underwater robots are usually called autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) Polar robots, designed to navigate icy, crevasse filled environments The device they use to move, mainly: Legged robot : human-like legs (i.e. an android) or animal-like legs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some of the earliest Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) were line following mobile robots. (wikipedia.org)
  • These types of robots are still widely popular in well known Robotic societies as a first step towards learning nooks and corners of robotics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Autonomous robots with random motion basically bounce off walls, whether those walls are sensed. (wikipedia.org)
  • That even extends to electric mobile robots, surveillance jellyfish and other Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), bats and electric aircraft. (idtechex.com)
  • The U.S. Army and MIT are exploring how metamaterials can help form modular robotic building blocks for transforming robots that can be reconfigured into different shapes and functions. (therobotreport.com)
  • Now, research is shedding light on how autonomous systems can foster human confidence in robots. (roboticstomorrow.com)
  • To understand the problem, Acharya joined researchers from Draper and the University of Colorado Boulder to study how autonomous robots that use learned probabilistic world models can compute and express self-assessed competencies in the form of machine self-confidence. (roboticstomorrow.com)
  • For this type of robotic surgery, the surgeon has to carry a significant prep work which includes, entering a lot of data on missile systems, planning for the whole course of action, taking X-rays, test robots motions, placing the robotic instrument in the proper start situation and review the robotic action to make clear everything goes as per system. (honda-p3.com)
  • But as robots proliferate in real-world applications like household service, driverless cars, warehouse automation, minimally-invasive surgery, search-and-rescue, and unmanned aerial vehicles, we are beginning to see the classical theory fall behind. (unipi.it)
  • If you watched the videos of the robots from the DARPA Robotics Challenge , you might believe that we may never see Rosie in real life. (singularityhub.com)
  • When it comes to robotic locomotion and navigation, most four-legged robots are trained to regain their footing if an obstacle causes them to stumble. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • DARPA 's OFFSET program envisions future small-unit infantry forces employing large-scale teams of unmanned air and/or ground robots to accomplish diverse missions in complex urban environments. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Autonomous weapon systems - commonly known as killer robots - may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent UN Security Council report on the Libyan civil war. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Although robot technology has progressed in certain spheres (self-driving vehicles are a prominent example), a number of obstacles remain, often surrounding seemingly simple functions that humans perform precisely and effortlessly, and that robots do not. (infotoday.com)
  • Athough We have seen the latest generation of robots like the Boston Dynamics Atlas and its uncannily ability for walk and move like a human, we won't be seeing an army of robotic soldiers any time soon. (curious-droid.com)
  • Remotely controlled or autonomous military systems from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are gaining support within the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) as new computer and sensor technologies combine to increase capabilities while decreasing size and cost. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • August 27, 2013 - via DARPA STO The Hydra large UUV is to use modular payloads inside a standardized enclosure to deploy a mix of UAVs and UUVs, depending on the military situation. (auvac.org)
  • Unmanned Ground Systems (UGS) are an over-looked class of UAVs with many thousands of vehicles used in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to locate and defuse IEDs or explore potentially dangerous buildings. (microwavejournal.com)
  • This chapter discusses areas such as the command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C3ISR) that are critical for integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into network-centric operations. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The human user will be in control of a swarm of Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and will be able to provide high-level commands to these agents. (jhu.edu)
  • The deal will be the first to use the "Toolbox" concept, in which a variety of autonomous UAVs and underwater vehicles (AUVs) will work in unison. (the-nref.org)
  • As the U.S. Army recruits the other military services to participate with their systems in next year's Project Convergence exercise to showcase significantly contracted sensor-to-shooter timelines through artificial intelligence (AI), policy discussions on the future use of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) are likely. (defensedaily.com)
  • The pentagon is spending billions on developing a new generation of Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWS) like robotic fighter Jets, missiles that decide what to attack and ships that hunt enemy submarines. (curious-droid.com)
  • The program aims to give driverless combat vehicles off-road autonomy while traveling at speeds that keep pace with those driven by people in realistic situations. (armyrecognition.com)
  • Applanix' deep expertise in these autonomous technologies is part of a broader Trimble solutions portfolio for automation and vehicle autonomy, which began more than three decades ago. (asmmag.com)
  • Humans must be able to establish a basis for correctly using and relying on robotic autonomy for success," the authors said. (roboticstomorrow.com)
  • In this work we outline our unified framework for controls, planning, and autonomy of hybrid ground/air vehicles. (catalyzex.com)
  • Detailed forecasts for these vehicle categories by numbers and value and the key components are provided for 2010-2020. (idtechex.com)
  • The 29 million EVs sold in 2010 will rise 69% to 49 million in 2020 but the value of the market will grow by far more because larger and more expensive vehicles are now rapidly adopting the technology. (idtechex.com)
  • His work proposed sensing models that enable the use of context and semantic information in robot localization, mapping, and navigation and developed algorithms for active information acquisition using autonomous robot teams. (kumarrobotics.org)
  • Vi viser arbeidet med en firbeint robot designet for utforskning i Mars- og Månehuler, som kan regulere sin orientering ved utelukkende å kontrollere bevegelsen av bena. (ntnu.no)
  • In this paper we present the complete system design for an aerial robot capable of autonomous exploration inside natural cave environments. (ntnu.no)
  • Other past projects include Demo III, an unmanned scouting vehicle funded by ARL, and PerceptOR a ground robot perception system prototype, funded by DARPA. (nasa.gov)
  • Navy laboratories have also played an important direct role in building robot vehicles: the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), over the past two decades, has built a number of prototype UGVs both for naval applications and for other Services. (nationalacademies.org)
  • In this type of robotic surgery, the surgeon makes the most of the work, but the robot is used to get help when needed. (honda-p3.com)
  • It takes serious coding to have a semi-autonomous bipedal robot stay on its feet, not to mention detect its surroundings. (singularityhub.com)
  • A robotics experts says that the current state of the practice for searching the interior of rubble is to use either a small tracked vehicle, such as an Inkutun VGTV Extreme, which is the most commonly used robot for such situations, or a snakelike robot, such as the Active Scope Camera developed in Japan. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • The Uran-9 multipurpose unmanned ground combat vehicle, which was unveiled by JSC 766 UPTK in September 2016, is another robot successfully tested in Syria. (thedefensepost.com)
  • Recently DARPA showed a system using a drone that could bought from Amazon but with new AI software it becomes a robot that can then hunt and identify armed men with AK47's in a mockup of a middle eastern village at a military testing range in the US, it was even capable of finding armed men when they are in the shadows. (curious-droid.com)
  • These products, currently used in a variety of autonomous vehicle programs, include the Trimble ® AP GNSS-Inertial board set that includes a high-precision Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). (asmmag.com)
  • Warehouses have installed mobile robotic systems to efficiently move materials from stocking shelves to order fulfillment zones. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many examples of such vehicles are still sold, by Transbotics, FMC, Egemin, HK Systems and many other companies. (wikipedia.org)
  • He obtained his masters and doctoral degrees from Stanford University, where his research focused on algorithms for guaranteeing safety for online learning methods applied to robotic systems. (upenn.edu)
  • Prior to that, he did his undergraduate work at Caltech, where he was a key member of the school's Desert DARPA Grand Challenge team, working on sensing systems and sensor fusion. (upenn.edu)
  • This project addresses the development of autonomous self-deploying aerial robotic systems (SDARS) that will enable new in-situ atmospheric science applications through targeted observation. (colorado.edu)
  • This project investigates a model-based approach to understanding how user trust evolves in systems consisting of a supervising user and an autonomous agent. (colorado.edu)
  • Previously he was a Research Technologist at JPL in the Mobility and Robotic Systems section and a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Caltech . (rochester.edu)
  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems 167:104482, September 2023. (cvut.cz)
  • Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 108:1-34, July 2023. (cvut.cz)
  • By 2015, the Pentagon's $230bn (£140bn) arms procurement programme Future Combat Systems expects 15% of America's armed forces to be robotic. (futurismic.com)
  • In my judgment, it is now time to plan for a full spectrum of unmanned systems for our naval services," newly appointed U.S. Navy Secretary Gordon England told the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Unmanned Systems 2001 conference in Baltimore last July. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • Conceptually, we have tended to limit applications to those that use unmanned vehicles as an augmentation to manned systems," England told conference attendees. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • In a paper by Noah Zych, Principal Engineer - Unmanned Systems, Oshkosh Corp., entitled United States Marine Corps/Robotics Technology Consortium Cargo Unmanned Ground Vehicle , he states "The increasing level of technical functionality demonstrated by progressive unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) has liberated them from the highly constrained environments of research laboratories and rigidly structured scenarios, and has transformed consideration of their use in military operational environments from hypothetical to imperative. (oemoffhighway.com)
  • The company's TerraMax UGV Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) was presented in Washington D.C. at the Assn. for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Unmanned Systems 2011 back in August. (oemoffhighway.com)
  • In a recent field test, SquadX program worked with Marines at the Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California, to track progress on two complementary systems that allow infantry squads to collaborate with AI and autonomous systems to make better decisions in complex, time-critical combat situations. (marinemagnet.com)
  • Autonomous ground and aerial systems equipped with combinations of live and simulated electronic surveillance tools, ground radar, and camera-based sensing provided reconnaissance of areas ahead of the unit as well as flank security, Troops surveyed the perimeter and reporting to squad members' handheld Android Tactical Assault Kits [ATAKs]. (marinemagnet.com)
  • It's no secret the U.S. Army wants its small unmanned aerial systems to operate quietly in densely-populated regions, but tests to achieve this can be expensive, time-consuming and labor-intensive according to researchers. (therobotreport.com)
  • RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO - Applanix, a Trimble Company, announced today that it is collaborating on advanced research for autonomous vehicle guidance and control systems with the University of Waterloo Centre in Ontario, Canada for Automotive Research (WatCAR). (asmmag.com)
  • Applanix will provide WatCAR with its industry-leading Positioning and Orientation System (POS) for testing autonomous guidance and control systems in real-world conditions. (asmmag.com)
  • Applanix technology will be used by WatCAR to assess the performance of the guidance and control systems on board their autonomous vehicles. (asmmag.com)
  • Senior member of the Vision Group, 6/99 - Present: (Unix-Linux/VxWorks/C/C++) I develop vision systems for space and unmanned ground vehicles. (nasa.gov)
  • Cybersecurity of autonomous systems, particularly in groups, is a major emerging challenge that is currently inhibiting the growth of these technologies in commercial and military applications. (turfcloud.com)
  • Future autonomous systems must increasingly collaborate and share data to serve their purpose, while under escalating security pressures. (turfcloud.com)
  • Saepio is the first system of its kind to be focused specifically on distributed robotic collaboration and the unique cybersecurity challenges inherent with such systems. (turfcloud.com)
  • To answer these challenges, autonomous systems in a complex city environment would present both opportunities and challenges for U.S. Army units operating in such environments. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • He is also the Graduate Program Chair for the new MS Degree in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at ASU. (jhu.edu)
  • Many remote-controlled systems, such as the armed Uran-9 combat multifunctional robotic system and the Uran-6 mine-clearing robotic vehicle, have been combat-tested by the Russian military in Syria. (thedefensepost.com)
  • The use of robotic systems managed by an operator is reportedly the first step in the Russian military's technology upgrade. (thedefensepost.com)
  • Autonomous missiles are an area which is already in use with systems like the British "fire and forget" Brimstone missiles. (curious-droid.com)
  • Though these systems can work in an Autonomous mode, the new generation of AI weapons will take this to the next stage, instead of being shown a target or partially remotely controlled, these new weapons will go and look for targets and decide whether or not to destroy them without any human intervention. (curious-droid.com)
  • A CUGV can be run in several different modes-fully autonomous as a convoy leader or in shadow mode as a follower to a lead vehicle. (oemoffhighway.com)
  • In order to make the vehicle fully autonomous, several physical and software based technologies are needed to work in unison to gather the appropriate information and make informed decisions based on a the latest in machine learning techniques. (oemoffhighway.com)
  • Trimble has a long history of using automation to improve safety and productivity-from pioneering automated blade control for earthmoving and providing positioning solutions for some of the earliest robotic applications in the 1990s to delivering automated steering for farmers and providing positioning technology for fully autonomous off- and on-highway trucks. (asmmag.com)
  • A mobile robotic dog named "Spot," able to climb stairs, navigate rough terrain, and respond to commands, offers researchers an autonomous technology for innovations in infrastructure maintenance and repair. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Autonomous exploration of unknown environments with aerial vehicles remains a challenging problem, especially in perceptually degraded conditions. (catalyzex.com)
  • This paper describes the 4D/RCS structure, its application to the LAGR program, and the learning and mobility control methods used by the NIST team's vehicle. (iospress.com)
  • The GXV-T program aims to demonstrate how future combat vehicles could improve mobility, survivability, safety, and effectiveness without increasing their armor. (defense-update.com)
  • A team from Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Center (CMU NREC) demonstrated shape-shifting wheel-track mechanisms that transition from a round wheel to a triangular track and back again while the vehicle is on the move, for instant improvements to tactical mobility and maneuverability on diverse terrains. (defense-update.com)
  • Hybrid ground and aerial vehicles can possess distinct advantages over ground-only or flight-only designs in terms of energy savings and increased mobility. (catalyzex.com)
  • On July 25, 2023, the robotic aircraft completed a three-hour sortie at the Eglin Test and Training Complex in Florida. (newatlas.com)
  • September 6, 2014 - via NUWC Keyport Sailors assigned to Submarine Development Squadron 5 prepare Large Training Vehicle 38, an unmanned undersea vehicle at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport, Wash. The drone is capable of line-of-sight and over-the-horizon communications in support of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. (auvac.org)
  • DARPA and General Atomics are readying their fighter-launched LongShot missile-firing drone for flight testing. (newatlas.com)
  • Member of the Mars Science Laboratory landing site selection team where I developed a novel method to assess rover traversability on the Martian Surface, allowing the project to select a landing site where all science targets could be reached within the vehicle capabilities and mission success criteria. (nasa.gov)
  • How do we know that self-assessed capabilities of the autonomous system are accurate? (roboticstomorrow.com)
  • Capabilities include revolutionary wheel-to-track and suspension technologies that would enable access and faster travel both on- and off-road, compared to existing ground vehicles. (defense-update.com)
  • DHS ST is offering a helping hand (or "paw") with new robotic dog technology that can assist with enhancing the capabilities of CBP personnel, while simultaneously increasing their safety downrange. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV's) were designed by the US Navy to protect military vessels from enemy mines. (cnet.com)
  • And a number of current military technologies, such as underwater mine detectors and laser-guided bombs, are autonomous once they are launched by humans. (acm.org)
  • October 23, 2014 - via US Navy Greenert said that by the end of the decade, the Navy ought to be deploying an autonomous large-diameter underwater-unmanned vehicle on missions. (auvac.org)
  • Applanix has been committed to meeting the needs of autonomous vehicle manufacturers for more than a decade, as first demonstrated in the early days of the DARPA Grand Challenge. (asmmag.com)
  • But after watching the DARPA Challenge and observing the rapid advances of computing, artificial intelligence, and sensor technologies, I see Rosie being very close to reality. (singularityhub.com)
  • It is notable, too, that three teams - and incidentally, three different designs - completed the DARPA Challenge course . (singularityhub.com)
  • That's better than in the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004, in which no self-driving car came close to finishing. (singularityhub.com)
  • GXV-T envisions future combat vehicles that could traverse up to 95 percent of off-road terrain, including slopes and various elevations. (defense-update.com)
  • Lieutenant General Yuri Stavitsky, Chief of Russia's Engineering Troops, said on Tuesday, May 22, that the Uran-6, along with the Skarabei remote-controlled inspection robotic system and the Sfera remote-controlled robotic system are expected to be accepted for service for Russia's engineering troops this year. (thedefensepost.com)
  • This project addresses an innovative approach towards autonomous enhancement of precipitation: to develop new sensing technologies, to create new data assimilation tools, to design novel targeted sampling and delivery strategies, and to integrate them into an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for real-time, autonomous guidance of rainfall enhancement operations. (colorado.edu)
  • He points out that Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia, himself a former secretary of the Navy, proposes making one-third of all deep strike aircraft unmanned by 2010 and one-third of all ground combat vehicles unmanned by 2015. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • Dual RE2 Sapien robotic arms integrated with a JLG scissor lift will perform tasks on C-17 military aircraft at height. (therobotreport.com)
  • The aircraft is part of an effort to haul 4th-generation fighter planes into the 21st-century aerial battlefield. (newatlas.com)
  • Whilst we think of AI being used with the latest hardware, The USAF is working on using older aircraft refitted with autonomous controls. (curious-droid.com)
  • The main goal of this research is to develop and assess an autonomous UAS that utilizes in-situ real time data to sense, target and implement seeding. (colorado.edu)
  • Ehsan's work is currently being supported by DARPA, Google Faculty Research Award and Microsoft Azure Award. (rochester.edu)
  • Matthew Klunder, chief of naval research, suggested that the researchers working on the project see coordinated autonomous vessels as a way to defend against attacks like the one that hit the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen on October, 12, 2000. (informationweek.com)
  • Engineers on the ground, under contract with DARPA , the Defense Department's research agency, had choreographed every turn, every pitch and roll, in an attempt to do something unprecedented: design a plane that can fly and engage in aerial combat-dogfighting-without a human pilot operating it. (acm.org)
  • Paul Schifferle, the vice-president of flight research at Calspan, the company that's modifying the L-39 for DARPA , said, 'The dogfight is probably the most dynamic flight profile in aviation, period. (acm.org)
  • An engineer with Robotic Research LLC, conducts a Pegasus test run during the Army's Project Convergence exercise last month. (defensedaily.com)
  • We are excited to collaborate with the University of Waterloo and WatCAR on this leading research in autonomous vehicle technology," said Louis Nastro, Director of Land Products at Applanix. (asmmag.com)
  • The research into autonomous self-assessment is based upon work supported by DARPA's Competency-Aware Machine Learning ( CAML ) program. (roboticstomorrow.com)
  • and with technology base programs at DARPA, the Special Operations Command, and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). (nationalacademies.org)
  • The first part of the talk will present research on myoelectric control interfaces for a variety of robotic mechanisms. (jhu.edu)
  • After years of research and testing, multipurpose unmanned ground vehicles are finally being accepted for service alongside Russia's troops. (thedefensepost.com)
  • Meanwhile, DARPA, the military research arm of the Pentagon has also unveiled the "Sea Hunter", an autonomous surface vessel that is designed stay at sea for months and track even the quietest submarines anywhere in the world. (curious-droid.com)
  • Integrating easily with vehicle sensors, the AP board sets are essential for precise vehicle control when interacting with a constantly changing environment. (asmmag.com)
  • For UGS recognizance, there are many kinds of vehicles with cameras and sensors that can enter a building or other areas that pose a risk to humans and take a look remotely at what is there. (microwavejournal.com)
  • GXV-T sought solutions with multiple onboard sensors and technologies to provide high-resolution, 360-degree situational awareness while keeping the vehicle enclosed. (defense-update.com)
  • The battery-powered electric truck carries Lidar, Radar, GPS and other sensors for autonomous operation. (the-nref.org)
  • The Navy and DoD are engineering high-tech, removable Unmanned Surface Vehicle "kits" designed to change amphibious warfare by delivering combat-relevant supplies, firing weapons, swarming enemies, refueling ships, searching for enemy mines and submarines and dispersing attacking forces to minimize risk from enemy fire. (nationalinterest.org)
  • This enables the vehicle to learn to navigate in complex, off-road terrain. (iospress.com)
  • Small, rugged and low powered, the AP board sets provide the precise positioning needed for autonomous vehicle applications as they navigate their environment. (asmmag.com)
  • These vehicles can fly like a helicopter, then transform back into a military ground vehicle. (cnet.com)
  • Motorcycles, military vehicles, buses and earthmovers are among them. (idtechex.com)
  • The TerraMax technology is a modular system that can be integrated into any military vehicle. (oemoffhighway.com)
  • The division is the first operational unit in the military to employ autonomous Marathon targets: figures on four-wheeled platforms that can be programmed to operate in concert, and are fast and unpredictable enough to rock the most experienced marksmen back on their heels. (marinemagnet.com)
  • The vehicle demonstrator incorporates standard military 20-inch wheels, advanced short-travel suspension of four-to-six inches, and a novel high-travel suspension that extends up to six feet - 42 inches upward and 30 inches downward. (defense-update.com)
  • Ideal for use on all sizes and types of vehicles, the AP boards feature Trimble's high-performance precision GNSS receivers and Applanix' industry-leading IN-Fusion™ GNSS-Inertial integrated technology that produces uninterrupted position, roll, pitch and true heading measurements of moving platforms. (asmmag.com)
  • Additional responsibilities include the system administration of the various computing platforms for our HMMWV robotic testbed which include Solaris, Linux and VxWorks OSs. (nasa.gov)
  • Algorithms governing autonomous maritime navigation have progressed to the point where USVs can more effectively "perceive" and respond to their surrounding environment while in transit, Robert Brizzolara, program manager, Sea Platforms and Weapons, ONR, recently told reporters. (nationalinterest.org)
  • CUAS News reported that "Europe's leading provider of Rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms, UMS SKELDAR, will host a webinar to formally announce its new contract win with the Belgian and Dutch Navies. (the-nref.org)
  • New paradigms for cooperative industrial robotics do not require physical separation between robotic manipulators and humans. (unipi.it)
  • According to Russian state-owned media outlet RT, the Ministry of Defence is planning to introduce more autonomous artificial intelligence-driven equipment. (thedefensepost.com)
  • Pegasus is a family of robotic air and ground vehicles equipped with AI to avoid obstacles and create full 3D mapping. (defensedaily.com)
  • Previous chapters in this report focused on unmanned aerial, surface, undersea, and ground vehicles and on the operational requirements associated with them. (nationalacademies.org)
  • It consists of four unmanned ground vehicles, one mobile command station and a tractor for transportation. (thedefensepost.com)
  • Under the 42-month, $131 million cost-shared effort, Boeing engineers will design, fabricate, and flight test a vehicle to demonstrate whether a UCAV can effectively and affordably strike targets and suppress enemy air defenses. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • Amphibious assault vehicle crewmen have fired on the targets using their guns, and tanks have been able to train their 7.62mm coaxial machine guns on them. (marinemagnet.com)
  • CRG Automation built a robotic system to decommission 70,000 chemical missiles in Kentucky. (therobotreport.com)
  • In February we reported on Darpa's Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance - Imaging System (ARGUS-IS ), a 1.8 gigapixel flying eye which will be mounted in a 500-pound pod carried by a Predator or A160 Hummingbird robocopter. (futurismic.com)
  • To demonstrate their method, researchers developed and tested a probabilistic world model on a simulated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission for an autonomous uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV). (roboticstomorrow.com)
  • The Command and Control Vehicle (C2V) Concept of Operations was to be a remote operator control unit so as to allow its personnel to plan routes and initiate missions, maintain situational awareness from beyond their line of sight, supervise and modify a vehicle's behavior, review mission data and, of course, preserve the operator and occupants' safety. (oemoffhighway.com)
  • Boeing has been tapped by DARPA to develop and test the technology that will be required to build a prototype to intercept hypersonic missiles in the upper atmosphere as part of the agency's four-year Glide Breaker program. (newatlas.com)
  • According to a Tweet published on the 'DGA' Twitter account on September 22, 2022, the French Army procurement agency has qualified the MEDEVAC version of the French-made Griffon 6x6 armored vehicle. (armyrecognition.com)
  • According to information published by 'The Singapore Army' Facebook account, during the Exercise Panzer Strike that was held in Germany, the army of Singapore conducted the first live firing of Spike anti-tank missile mounted on the new Hunter tracked armored IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle). (armyrecognition.com)
  • the Army is developing a fleet of robotic combat vehicles. (acm.org)
  • Significantly, the Future Combat System program, initiated by the Army and DARPA, is now a joint Army and Marine program also. (nationalacademies.org)
  • In another step from the workbench to the battlefield, Raytheon UK is integrating its first high-energy 15-kW laser weapon into a Wolfhound armored vehicle for the British Army as part of the Ministry of Defence's Land Demonstrator laser program. (newatlas.com)
  • They can also fly or drive without a human behind the wheel, and drop soldiers and vehicles into war zones. (cnet.com)
  • During a recent "swarm" boat demonstration in the lower Chesapeake Bay, ONR-developed boats achieved a key milestone in the area of autonomous control. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The TA15 autonomous electric hauler, built by Volvo Autonomous Solutions, won the prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award in what is reportedly the world's largest and most distinguished design competition. (the-nref.org)
  • The goal is to allow a single operator to monitor and control multiple vehicles at one time from one display. (oemoffhighway.com)
  • The helicopter refueling system uses RE2's proprietary perception software to control a dexterous RE2 robotic arm mounted onto an unmanned ground vehicle. (therobotreport.com)
  • The Wasp III UAS features the expendable air vehicle, a ground control unit and communications ground station. (microwavejournal.com)
  • Our contribution is three-fold: 1) We develop a control scheme for the control of passive two-wheeled hybrid ground/aerial vehicles. (catalyzex.com)
  • It mines and controls 95% of the World's rare earth reserves used in the hybrid car batteries, motors and other key components of today's electric vehicles. (idtechex.com)
  • Robotic surgery is done with the use of telecommunications surgical robotic system is the next category of today's famous robotic surgery. (honda-p3.com)
  • For now, remote weapons like UAV's or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are directed by humans from the safety of cubicles often hundreds or thousands of miles away from the conflict zone and as such, any decision to use lethal force is made by a person. (curious-droid.com)
  • This paper contributes a method designed to enable autonomous distributed 3D nuclear radiation field mapping. (ntnu.no)
  • The future Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) from Boeing is to be the vanguard of a new generation of autonomous vehicles able to take the fight directly to the enemy. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • Medical robotics and robotic surgery appear to be the future of medical operations. (honda-p3.com)
  • This sort of thing was once the preserve of Hollywood but it will be controlling the future autonomous weapon with in years rather than decades. (curious-droid.com)
  • In addition to robotics, he is also interested in the area of technology policy and law, particularly how to best regulate the burgeoning areas of autonomous ground and aerial vehicles. (upenn.edu)
  • The trends, technology and planned vehicles are clarified in 185 figures and 58 tables including the historical context. (idtechex.com)
  • The program-performer team identified a "steady evolution of tactics" made possible with the addition of an autonomous squad member. (marinemagnet.com)
  • Findings were reported in the article "Generalizing Competency Self-Assessment for Autonomous Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning," where the team addressed several important questions. (roboticstomorrow.com)
  • The Tactical Reconnaissance Vehicle , originally designed in the UK, is now being developed by the US Defense Department. (cnet.com)