Battlefield Robots for Army XXI.

Abstract

Robotics may well represent the greatest unfulfilled technological promise of the late twentieth century, and perhaps nowhere is this more true than in the area of military robotics. Closer examination of this issue suggests a compelling question. Is this failure due to technological immaturity or simply our collective inability (or unwillingness) to exploit technologic opportunity? For this paper to be meaningful, I believe it is necessary to retain the distinction between descriptive analysis and prescriptive advice. As such, the paper begins with an historical perspective, followed by an analysis of the technologies relevant to military robotics. That done, we move on to look at some representative unmanned systems, followed by a projection beyond the Army XXI period of interest into the more distant future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA331848

Entities

People

  • Mark L. Swinson

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Swarming Technologies
  • Target Recognition
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy