Enhancing Future Military Capabilities with Autonomous Driving Vehicles
Abstract
An autonomous driving vehicle can do whatever a manned vehicle does. It can perform the same tasks that military drivers currently perform in a better and more efficient way. With a camera, an autonomous vehicle can easily perform reconnaissance tasks. The Autonomous Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) can search areas that neither aerial drones nor humans cannot, such as woods, pipes, caves, and tunnels. The autonomous driving vehicles can perform logistic tasks. Equipped with an assault rifle, an autonomous vehicle can perform limited combat tasks and it can engage and eliminate a target within 15 years, technology will allow defense industries to build autonomous driving vehicles. Autonomous driving vehicles will perform an array of tactical tasks releasing the ground forces from dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks. The degree of autonomy of such vehicles will be still limited and under control of human operators. Maybe, in the far future, autonomous systems will be able to make their own decisions without human interference.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1178804
Entities
People
- Alessio Argese
Organizations
- Marine Corps University