Expendable Electric Landrover (EEL)

Abstract

Three generations of Expendable Electric Landrover (EEL) robots were developed during fiscal year 2003 at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City (NSWC-PC). The vehicles were designed to meet stringent shock requirements in order to survive air deployment via parachute drop. On 20 March 2003, as part of the "STORK" Project demonstration, an EEL became the first unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) successfully emplaced by a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The STORK Initiative was part of the USSOCOM Pathfinder Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD). The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) provided funding for the EEL development.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA430607

Entities

People

  • Mitch Gavrilash

Organizations

  • Naval Surface Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Detection
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Military Research
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Ground Systems
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Readers

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  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control