Establishment of a Center for Defense Robotics

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the newly formed Joint Center for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (JC-UGV) located at the Army's Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan. The center will provide a focus to ground vehicle robotics by bringing together research and development as well as acquisition and sustainment to manage the life cycle of defense robotic systems. The central mechanism the center will use to bring together all of these aspect is a system integration laboratory (SIL) environment. The robotics SIL will include both hardware and simulation and be based upon a distributed simulation environment. This will allow researchers, industry and Government partners all over the country to work on very complex problem. By bringing together university, industry and Government to advance defense robotics our customer, the war fighter, will be ultimately well served in the end.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 06, 2007
Accession Number
ADA469023

Entities

People

  • David R Thomas
  • Jim Overholt

Organizations

  • Tank-automotive and Armaments Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Base Closures
  • Complex Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Military Applications
  • Robotics
  • Simulations
  • Unmanned Ground Systems
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

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