ARV robotic technologies (ART): a risk reduction effort for future unmanned systems

Jeffrey F. Jaster

doi:10.1117/12.664173

12 May 2006 ARV robotic technologies (ART): a risk reduction effort for future unmanned systems

Jeffrey F. Jaster

Proceedings Volume 6230, Unmanned Systems Technology VIII; 623015 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.664173
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2006, Orlando (Kissimmee), Florida, United States

Abstract

The Army's ARV (Armed Robotic Vehicle) Robotic Technologies (ART) program is working on the development of various technological thrusts for use in the robotic forces of the future. The ART program will develop, integrate and demonstrate the technology required to advance the maneuver technologies (i.e., perception, mobility, tactical behaviors) and increase the survivability of unmanned platforms for the future force while focusing on reducing the soldiers' burden by providing an increase in vehicle autonomy coinciding with a decrease in the total number user interventions required to control the unmanned assets. This program will advance the state of the art in perception technologies to provide the unmanned platform an increasingly accurate view of the terrain that surrounds it; while developing tactical/mission behavior technologies to provide the Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) the capability to maneuver tactically, in conjunction with the manned systems in an autonomous mode. The ART testbed will be integrated with the advanced technology software and associated hardware developed under this effort, and incorporate appropriate mission modules (e.g. RSTA sensors, MILES, etc.) to support Warfighter experiments and evaluations (virtual and field) in a military significant environment (open/rolling and complex/urban terrain). The outcome of these experiments as well as other lessons learned through out the program life cycle will be used to reduce the current risks that are identified for the future UGV systems that will be developed under the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, including the early integration of an FCS-like autonomous navigation system onto a tracked skid steer platform.

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Jeffrey F. Jaster "ARV robotic technologies (ART): a risk reduction effort for future unmanned systems", Proc. SPIE 6230, Unmanned Systems Technology VIII, 623015 (12 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.664173

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